Gang leader for a day : a rogue sociologist takes to the streets /
Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi.
Gang leader for a day : a rogue sociologist takes to the streets / Sudhir Venkatesh. - New York : Penguin Press, 2008. - xiv, 302 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
"How does it feel to be black and poor?" -- First days on Federal Street -- Someone to watch over me -- Gang leader for a day -- Ms. Bailey's neighborhood -- The hustler and the hustled -- Black and blue -- The stay-together gang.
Recounts the story of a young sociologist whose infiltration of a Chicago drug gang was originally introduced in the work "Freakonomics," describing the author's idealism, his friendship with gang leader JT, and his witness to the organization's crack-selling trade.
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Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi.
Gangs--Illinois--Chicago.
African Americans--Illinois--Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
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Gang leader for a day : a rogue sociologist takes to the streets / Sudhir Venkatesh. - New York : Penguin Press, 2008. - xiv, 302 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
"How does it feel to be black and poor?" -- First days on Federal Street -- Someone to watch over me -- Gang leader for a day -- Ms. Bailey's neighborhood -- The hustler and the hustled -- Black and blue -- The stay-together gang.
Recounts the story of a young sociologist whose infiltration of a Chicago drug gang was originally introduced in the work "Freakonomics," describing the author's idealism, his friendship with gang leader JT, and his witness to the organization's crack-selling trade.
1594201501 : HRD $25.95 9781594201509
Penguin Group USA, Attn: Order Processing 405 Murray Hill Pkwy, East Rutherford, NJ, USA, 07073-2136 SAN 282-5074
2007040170
Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi.
Gangs--Illinois--Chicago.
African Americans--Illinois--Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
HV6439.U7 / C46 2008
364.1/0660977311