Against the Wall: Poor, Young, Black, and Male
Edited by Elijah Anderson
328 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus.
Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4097-9 | $49.95 | £32.50
A volume in the City in the Twenty-First Century series
Edited and with an introductory chapter by sociologist Elijah Anderson, the essays in Against the Wall describe how the anonymous young black male has come to be publicly identified with crime and violence because of skin color alone.
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