Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
Ryllie Quesada
Sociology 361
Professor Mario Cano
November 18th, 2016
Part 1
In Getting Played, sociologist Jody Miller shows readers a compelling picture of the dreadful issue that effects society and travels through how complex and pitiful violence is connected to the everyday lives of people in poor urban neighborhoods. Pulling from interviews with 75 different girls and boys. Jody Miller gives an inside look and a whole new perspective on how distressing a world mixed with everyday danger and gender-based violence. Miller gives facts of how these girls are secluded, disregarded, and often bullied by the people who are supposed to be by there side …show more content…
Sexual harassment, assault, dating violence, and even gang rape are not unusual happening in these areas. In Jody Millers book, Getting Played…, sociologist Miller bestows an enthralling sketch of this dreadful public problem and shares how inevitable, and disastrous, violence is to their everyday lives in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods. This book gives a very unique perspective onto how it is for the youth in these neighborhoods. Being able to read stories from girls and boys around the same age as college students, puts great outlook on how anyone lives could be changed just by the area they grow up in and the school system provided. It was hard to read about the young men and women being victimized every day, anywhere, at any time, without a place to feel safe and at home. With the lack of officers and officials being there to protect them, learning to survive on your own it vital to surviving another day. It is hard to imaging growing up that way since many of Americans grow up in a rural suburban neighborhood. While reading, it was hard to place why the police would “turn a blind eye” to those in need. That part seemed to not make much since because it is their
Ryllie Quesada
Sociology 361
Professor Mario Cano
November 18th, 2016
Part 1
In Getting Played, sociologist Jody Miller shows readers a compelling picture of the dreadful issue that effects society and travels through how complex and pitiful violence is connected to the everyday lives of people in poor urban neighborhoods. Pulling from interviews with 75 different girls and boys. Jody Miller gives an inside look and a whole new perspective on how distressing a world mixed with everyday danger and gender-based violence. Miller gives facts of how these girls are secluded, disregarded, and often bullied by the people who are supposed to be by there side …show more content…
Sexual harassment, assault, dating violence, and even gang rape are not unusual happening in these areas. In Jody Millers book, Getting Played…, sociologist Miller bestows an enthralling sketch of this dreadful public problem and shares how inevitable, and disastrous, violence is to their everyday lives in poverty-stricken urban neighborhoods. This book gives a very unique perspective onto how it is for the youth in these neighborhoods. Being able to read stories from girls and boys around the same age as college students, puts great outlook on how anyone lives could be changed just by the area they grow up in and the school system provided. It was hard to read about the young men and women being victimized every day, anywhere, at any time, without a place to feel safe and at home. With the lack of officers and officials being there to protect them, learning to survive on your own it vital to surviving another day. It is hard to imaging growing up that way since many of Americans grow up in a rural suburban neighborhood. While reading, it was hard to place why the police would “turn a blind eye” to those in need. That part seemed to not make much since because it is their