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...

Have girls really gone wild? Despite the media fascination with "bad girls," facts beyond the hype have remained unclear. Fighting for Girls focuses on these facts, and using the best data availabe about actual trends in girls' uses of violence, the scholars here find that by virtually any measure available, incidents of girls' violence are going down, not up. Additionally, rather than attributing girls violence to personality or to girls becoming "more like boys," Fighting for Girls focuses on the contexts that produce violence in girls, demonstrating how addressing the unique problems that...

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.