Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
“Miller’s analysis is spot-on and sensitive, illuminating the oft overseen effects and workings of privilege . . . she does a great job at showing how large societal forces have very real, individual, and private consequences.”-Feminist Review,“InGetting Played, sociologist Jody Miller presents a compelling picture of this dire social problem and explores how inextricably, and tragically, linked violence is to their daily lives in poor urban neighborhoods.”-QBR,The Black Book Review“The result of Miller’s information lode is a sometimes uplifting book. It is possible for government and private-sector programs to alleviate the violence against females, Miller believes—but not if those in charge lack the will and refuse to allocate the resources.”-St. Louis Post Dispatch,“Miller’s analysis is spot-on and sensitive, illuminating the oft overseen effects and workings of privilege.”-Feminist Review,“Miller gives us a detailed examination of the violence experienced by Black inner city girls whose victimization is based on multiple dimensions of their lives: because they are Black, because they live in extremely disadvantaged neighborhoods, and because they are women. Miller’s careful, rich, detailed field work documents and analyzes the complex realities of these young women’s lives that set the context for the struggles they routinely contend with. The voices of these young people have been ignored for too long.Getting Playedhas given them an opportunity to be heard that is long overdue.”-Robert Crutchfield,University of Washington