Getting Played Chap. 1

In chapter 1 of “Getting Played” the author focuses on outlooks on gender and urban violence. The violence that is specifically focused on would be violence from black men to black women.  His goal is to bring together significant strands of criminological research, to investigate how the structural facilitate both cultural adoptions and social contexts that heighten and shape the tremendous gender-based violence faced by urban African American girls and women.

I come to realize and discussed with my professor that the article is mainly focused on black African American women because the research is being held by white women. As stated in the article women are being domestically raped and statistics state that sexual violence emerges as a consequence of structural and cultural feature of society.

I feel that sexual violence or any type of violence towards black women should have been focused and researched on. Researchers have found that structural gender inequality, including economic inequality, is correlated with rates of rape.

The part of the article that I am interested in is the sexual violence is especially severe and focused on college populations generally, and fraternities specifically. Sociologists Patricia Yancey Martin and Robert A. Hummer highlighted on three overriding features that, make college fraternities high risk.

I think all the points that are being brought up should be focused on even more because it’s time for closure on the violence that should be prohibited.

:D signed
Myeisha Keith