Brown, A. F. (2011). Descendants of “Ruth:” black Girls Coping Through the “Black Male Crisis”. The Urban Review, 43(5), 597-619. This article presents the complex relationship between how black male and female identities have been constructed dichotomously in response to the gender framed “crisis” in black America. The ethnographic research study was… Continue Reading Descendants of “Ruth:” black Girls Coping Through the “Black Male Crisis”