"How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis. How is it that gangsta rap--so dystopian that it struck aspiring Brooklyn rapper and future superstar Jay-Z as "over the top"--was born in Los Angeles, the home of Hollywood, surf, a…
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"In its early days, rap was understood as the poetry of the "inner city," which usually meant New York. Few expected anything as hard-edged as gangsta rap to emerge from Los Angeles, home of surf and sun. Felicia Viator tells the story of LA's self-styled "ghetto reporters," who…
"In its early days, rap was understood as the poetry of the "inner city," which usually meant New York. Few expected anything as hard-edged as gangsta rap to emerge from Los Angeles, home of surf and sun. Felicia Viator tells the story of LA's self-styled "ghetto reporters," who…
Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analysing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions.
In "Culture, Relevance, and Schooling: Exploring Uncommon Ground," Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector, and the contributing authors conceive of culturally relevant and critically minded pedagogies in terms of opening up new spatial, discursive, and/or embodied learning terrains. Reader…
"This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. In the last two decades, criminological narratives have advanced a series of propositions on the nature of the late modern risk soc…
Violence and childhood in the inner city
by McCord, Joan
fromCambridge criminology series
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Type: Book
Violence and childhood in the inner city
by McCord, Joan
fromCambridge criminology series
0
Type: Book
Violence and childhood in the inner city
by McCord, Joan
fromCambridge criminology series
0
Type: Book
The contributors to this book present a variety of opinions on the causes of urban violence and the changes necessary to reduce it. They consider why there is so much violence, why some people become violent and others do not, and why violence is more prevalent in some urban are…
Violence and childhood in the inner city
by McCord, Joan
fromCambridge criminology series
0
Type: Book
The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life in American cities safer, to make growing up in the urban ghettos less risky, and to reduce the violence that so often permeates urban childhoods. They consider why there is so much violence, why some …
Violence and childhood in the inner city
by McCord, Joan
fromCambridge criminology series
0
Type: Book
The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life in American cities safer, to make growing up in the urban centers less risky, and to reduce the violence that so often permeates urban childhoods. They consider why there is so much violence, why some …
Violence and childhood in the inner city
by McCord, Joan
fromCambridge criminology series
0
Type: Book
Violence and childhood in the inner city
by McCord, Joan
fromCambridge criminology series
0
Type: Book
The contributors to this book believe that something can be done to make life in American cities safer, to make growing up in the urban centers less risky, and to reduce the violence that so often permeates urban childhoods. They consider why there is so much violence, why some …