Unequal City provides an in-depth discussion of exactly this issue: how adolescents’ perceptions of themselves and the larger social world are shaped by their daily interactions with others, particularly as they travel back and forth from school. This book examines Chicago adolescents’ experiences within and navigation through ostensibly free yet potentially penalizing places like urban schools and neighborhoods to reveal that their perceptions of social and criminal injustice are both stratified by race and rooted in place.
