01909nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100002900041245019000070260002700260300003100287520137600318650006601694773002701760241105b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMoffett-Bateau, Alex J.   a“I can’t vote if i don’t leave my apartment”: The problem of neighborhood violence and its impact on the political behavior of black American women living below the poverty line  aUrban Affairs Review    a60(1), Jan, 2024: p.73-117  aPrior research examining political behavior outside of the United States, has shown that violence can have a mixed impact on political engagement. Building on that work, this research examines whether violence shapes the political lives of poor Black women within the United States. I argue, neighborhood violence in the United States can and often does, shape the political behavior of Black women living below the poverty line in public housing. I use ethnographic data to parse out a conceptual framework which articulates connections between residential violence experienced by Black women living in poverty and their politics. Ultimately, my analysis shows violence can cause isolation and harm, and in doing so dampen political engagement. When residents experienced high levels of violence and did not feel a sense of belonging or connection to their neighborhood, they rarely engage d in visible political behaviors. However, residents who expressed a sense of connection to their neighborhood continued to engage in politics. Those residents who had interpersonal relationships within their residential neighborhood, frequently maintained and sometimes further developed their individual politics, despite and sometimes in response to, personal experiences with residential violence.- Reproduced 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874231162930
  aRace, class, Urban politics, Black politics, Public housing.   aUrban Affairs Review