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A review by spruce_moose
Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence by Jody Miller
5.0
An intense analysis of the many factors that impact Black girlhood in urban environments. I found this book uniquely niche despite existing in three prominent families of sociological research (gender, class and African American studies). It’s the first and only research I’ve seen on the matter that approaches the issue with intimate nuance. Isolating the subject to sexual violence to a population outside of the bourgeoisie allows for more depth and specificity
Sexual violence in urban Black communities is ubiquitous and private, as it is in any other. However even in the public discourse, sexual abuse of Black girls is woefully underrepresented in mass media - R. Kelly’s multi-decade spree being the most prominent example. Because of this, the detail Miller reveals via interviews was my first time seeing these things written, let alone in print.
For that reason, I think this book is not only valuable for social scientists but also Black women who survived these specific normalizations of sexual abuse and developed gender identities in these environments.
Sexual violence in urban Black communities is ubiquitous and private, as it is in any other. However even in the public discourse, sexual abuse of Black girls is woefully underrepresented in mass media - R. Kelly’s multi-decade spree being the most prominent example. Because of this, the detail Miller reveals via interviews was my first time seeing these things written, let alone in print.
For that reason, I think this book is not only valuable for social scientists but also Black women who survived these specific normalizations of sexual abuse and developed gender identities in these environments.