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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814282803321

Autore

Hawkins Darnell F.

Titolo

Roots of African American violence : ethnocentrism, cultural diversity, and racism / / Darnell F. Hawkins [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder, Colorado ; ; London, England : , : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-62637-643-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages)

Disciplina

303.6089/96073

Soggetti

Crime and race - United States

Crime - Sociological aspects

African American criminals

African Americans - Crimes against

African Americans - Violence against

Violence - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Exploring the Roots of African American Violence -- 2 Looking Back, Moving Forward: Theories of Race and Crime -- 3 Toward a Theory of African American Violence -- 4 Science, Ideology, and the Study of Ethnocentrism -- 5 On the Conceptual Roots of Ethnocentrism -- 6 Boxed In: Ethnocentrism and Urban Violence -- 7 Old Guards and Newcomers: Ethnocentric White America -- 8 Melting Pot Blues: Ethnocentric Black America -- 9 A Tale of Two Cities: Race and Homicide in Chicago and St. Louis -- 10 Public Policy to Prevent Violence -- References -- Index -- About the Book

Sommario/riassunto

What explains the well-documented racial disparities in rates of homicide and other acts of criminal violence in the United States?  Critically confronting the conventional narratives that purport to answer this question, the authors of Roots of African American Violence offer an alternative framework--one that acknowledges the



often hidden cultural diversity and within-race ethnocentrism that exists in black communities. Their provocative work, drawing insights from criminology, criminal justice, anthropology, and sociology, is a seminal step in efforts to understand the intersection of race and violence.