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Holding Your Square : Masculinities, Streetlife, and Violence by Christopher W. Mullins is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Holding Your Square : Masculinities, Streetlife, and Violence about?
This book is about the meanings of masculinities within the the black underclass in an American city (St Louis, Missouri), and how these shaped perceptions and enactments of violence. Based on a large number of interviews with offenders the author provides a rich description of life on the streets, contextualizing criminal violence within this deviant subculture, and with a specific focus on issues of gender. It establishes how street based gender identity motivated and guided men through violen
Who reads Holding Your Square : Masculinities, Streetlife, and Violence?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Christopher W. Mullins
- Publisher
- Willan Publishing
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781843921943
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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