Roots of African American Violence: Ethnocentrism, Cultural Diversity, and Racism.

What explains the well-documented racial disparities in rates of homicide and other acts of criminal violence in the United States? Critically confronting the conventional narratives that purport to answer this question, the authors of Roots of African American Violence offer an alternative framework―one that acknowledges the often hidden cultural diversity and within-race ethnocentrism that exists in black communities. Their provocative work, drawing insights from criminology, criminal justice, anthropology, and sociology, is a seminal step in efforts to understand the intersection of race and violence.
CONTENTS:

• Exploring the Roots of African American Violence.
• Looking Back, Moving Forward: Theories of Race and Crime.
• Toward a Theory of African American Violence.
• Science, Ideology, and the Study of Ethnocentrism.
• On the Conceptual Roots of Ethnocentrism.
• Boxed In: Ethnocentrism and Urban Violence.
• Old Guards and Newcomers: Ethnocentric White America.
• Melting Pot Blues: Ethnocentric Black America.
• A Tale of Two Cities: Race and Homicide in Chicago and St. Louis.
• Public Policy to Prevent Violence.