Getting Played Chapter 1

In "Getting Played" an African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence the author Jody Miller  documents violence experienced by poor African American girls. Drawing on a interview by 75 girls and boys , she aimed to investigate how the structural inequalities that create extreme racial, and urban poverty facilitate in both cultural adaptations and  social context. In this chapter Miller talks about routine violence faced by urban African American girls while at the same time avoiding perpetuating negative stereotypes of young black men as predators. She argues that violence is deeply rooted in structures of gender, race, and inequalities in distressed urban neighborhoods.
Miller interview a few people about their communities where public space is male space, where social tides and involvement is limited by self-isolation as a strategy. She went about taking pictures on the streets at females and men and she realized that the women where faces away from the cameras with their butts showing. She feels that the females were possessing like that , learning from whats around them.