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Twins, Emil and Elia Abrams, have been raised by their grandmother for the past 11 years. Nearing their 18th birthday Elia decides to begin searching for their estranged mother and enlists the help of her not so enthusiastic sister, Emil. The search only leads to more questions and they find out quickly that if you want answers just go to the source. This book follows the Abrams twins as they discover the truth regarding the whereabouts of their mother, unearth super natural talents, and embark on a journey of unimaginable discovery.

With an outward gaze focused on a better future, Between Good and Ghetto reflects the social world of inner city African American girls and how they manage threats of personal violence.

Drawing on personal encounters, traditions of urban ethnography, Black feminist thought, gender studies, and feminist criminology, Nikki Jones gives readers a richly descriptive and compassionate account of how African American girls negotiate schools and neighborhoods governed by the so-called "code of the street"uthe form of street justice that governs violence in distressed urban areas. She...

As the chapters in this volume demonstrate, young, disadvantaged men from urban neighborhoods face a unique set of challenges and constraints as they transition to adulthood. Yet, these challenges are not always contained by place.

Research among Latino and White disadvantaged men in nonurban settings highlights the pressures that come along with fatherhood for disadvantaged men. In contrast to popular understandings of absent or disengaged fathers, findings reveal how fatherhood and increasing levels of interdependence during early adulthood can buffer men as they make the...