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Against the Wall–Now in Paperback

Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male

Edited by Elijah Anderson

320 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus.

Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4097-9 | $49.95 | £32.50

Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2017-9 | $24.95 | £16.50

A volume in the City in the Twenty-First Century series

Against the WallEdited and with an introductory chapter by sociologist Elijah Anderson, the essays in Against the Wall describe how young black men have come to be identified publicly with crime and violence. Read more . . .

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