Gang leader for a day : a rogue sociologist takes to the streets / Sudhir Venkatesh.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2008.Description: xiv, 302 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1594201501 : HRD
  • 9781594201509
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1/0660977311 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6439.U7 C46 2008
Contents:
"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.
Summary: 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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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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