Between good and ghetto: African American girls and inner-city violence

Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1-211

  Jones, Nikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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