NDLI: “A Perverse Kind of Sense”: Urban Spaces, Ghetto Places and the Discourse of School Shootings

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	DeLeon, Abraham P.
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	School shootings loom large in the collective imagination and young, White males commit a majority of these horrific crimes. Although many of the descriptions of school shooters in the media and scholarly studies attribute their actions to psychological problems and/or personal/social failings, these events are also often placed in a comparative stance with urban crime, despite being an unrelated sociological phenomenon. The discourses describing these school shootings reproduce stereotypical notions of blackness, rooted in senseless violence, rampant sexuality, poor work ethic, a lack of strong morality and the supposedly degenerate nature of urban crime and “ghetto” culture. The author argues these conceptions have a historical lineage dating back to European colonization and demonstrates the necessity for examining contemporary urban issues within a postcolonial context. This type of critical analysis exposes deficit discourses surrounding urban spaces, places and people of color, allowing for resistance to these types of dominant representations.
Starting Page	152
Ending Page	169
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00420972
Journal	The Urban Review
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731960
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2011-03-17
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Representation Urban education Cultural studies Postcolonialism Critical pedagogy School shootings Community and Environmental Psychology Sociology Education (general)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Urban Studies Education

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