Growing up Bad? Black Youth, 'Road' Culture and Badness in an East London Neighbourhood

Name: Growing up Bad? Black Youth, 'Road' Culture and Badness in an East London Neighbourhood
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ISBN: 9781872767031

ISBN-10: 1872767036

ISBN-13: 9781872767031

Edition: 2010

Authors: Anthony Gunter

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The 'problem' of young black men has loomed large in the news-media and academic research for more than forty years, highlighting and exacerbating moral panics about mugging, rioting, drug-dealing, knife and gun violence and much more. Young black British men feature in any descriptions of social alienation and discrimination, seen as suffering more than most in any measure of poverty, mental illness, school exclusions, educational under achievement and experiences of the youth justice system including imprisonment. For some commentators poverty and institutionalised racism are the root causes for this continued social marginalisation. In contrast other writers play down such…

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Tufnell Press
Publication date: 1/14/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 163
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.06" long
Weight: 0.594
Language: English