America the Beautiful and Violent: Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago

by Dexter Voisin

Widespread media narratives portray an epidemic of neighborhood violence in urban areas--often ignoring the structural explanations advanced by community organizers fighting violence and activists such as those in the Movement for Black Lives. In this book, Dexter R. Voisin provides a compelling and social-justice-oriented analysis of current trends in neighborhood violence in light of the historical and structural factors that have reproduced entrenched...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231184409
• ISBN13: 9780231184403
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"