Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 463 g
Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington
Buch, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 463 g
Reihe: Critical Issues in Crime and Society
ISBN: 978-1-9788-1737-1
Verlag: Rutgers University Press
Murder Town, USA: Homicide, Structural Violence and Activism is a street ethnography that describes how fifteen men and women (ages 21-48), formerly involved with the streets, studied and did activism on gun violence in Wilmington, Delaware. This team examined how race, ethnicity, gender, poverty, white-wealth and small-city size contributed to a street identity and especially the spread of gun violence.
Drawing on the voices of the streets, this book project is in part a research-driven response to an infamous 2014 Newsweek article, “Murder Town USA (aka) Wilmington, Delaware,” which focused on how a small city’s identity was forged by white wealth, gun violence and Black poverty.
Murder Town, USA further argues the voices most likely to perpetuate and be victimized by gun violence, is what’s missing most from discussions on gun violence. It is only through and with the streets that it is possible to fully understand and stop the violence in their neighborhoods.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction: Street Identity, Structural Violence and Street PAR
Part I: Context of Opportunity and Violence - A City of Banks: A Long Legacy of Economic Violence and Crime
- “Welcome to Wilmington—A Place to Be Somebody”: Negotiating City Culture and Building Rapport
- “Murder Town USA”: Reframing Gun Violence and Resilience in a Small City
Part II: Management, Containment and the Social Control of Black Wilmington - “I’m Still Looking for the Golden Ticket!”: Education and Economic Justice, A Dream Deferred—in Perpetuity
- “Fuck the Police!”: Standing Up to the Policing Machine
- “I Don’t Let these Felonies Hold Me Back!”: How the Streets Radically Reframed Reentry
Part III: Street Agency: Coping with and Ending the Structural Violence Complex - “Brenda’s Got a Baby”: Competing Roles of Black Women as Matriarchs and Hustlers
- “Street Love”: How Psychological and Social Wellbeing Interrupts Gun Violence
- “Winter is Coming!”: “White Walkers,” Revolutionary Change and The Streets Call for Structural Transformation
Conclusion: Calling for a Radical Street Ethnography: Street PAR, SOR Theory and the Bottom-Caste
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