"It's a mass shooting in the hood everyday": Black and Latine youth organizers' reflections on structural racism and community gun violence.
This study investigated young Black and Latine organizers' perceptions of how mainstream narratives of gun violence relate to and influence their antigun violence organizing work. We analyzed interview data from 22 Black and Latine young people (Mage = 19.91, 55% women) who were engaged in gun viole...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 76; pp. 147 - 160 |
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