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Murder Town, USA - Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington (Paperback)
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Murder Town, USA - Homicide, Structural Violence, and Activism in Wilmington (Paperback)
Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society
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Far too many poor Black communities struggle with gun violence and
homicide. The result has been the unnatural contortion of Black
families and the inter-generational perpetuation of social chaos
and untimely death. Young people are repeatedly ripped away from
life by violence, while many men are locked away in prisons. In
neighborhoods like those of Wilmington, Delaware, residents
routinely face the pressures of violence, death, and
incarceration. Murder Town, USA is thus a timely
ethnography with an innovative structure: the authors helped
organize fifteen residents formerly involved with the streets
and/or the criminal justice system to document the relationship
between structural opportunity and experiences with violence in
Wilmington's Eastside and Southbridge neighborhoods.Â
Earlier scholars offered rich cultural analysis of violence
in low-income Black communities, and yet this literature has mostly
conceptualized violence through frameworks of personal
responsibility or individual accountability. And even if
acknowledging the pressure of structural inequality, most earlier
researchers describe violence as the ultimate result of some moral
failing, a propensity for crime, and the notion of
helplessness. Instead, in Murder Town USA, Payne, Hitchens,
and Chamber, along with their collaborative team of street
ethnographers, instead offer a radical re-conceptualization of
violence in low-income Black communities by describing the penchant
for violence and involvement in crime overall to be a logical,
"resilient" response to the perverse context of structural
inequality.
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