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
Edited 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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