TY  - BOOK
AU  - Venkatesh,Sudhir Alladi
TI  - Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the streets 
SN  - 1594201501 : HRD
AV  - HV6439.U7 C46 2008
U1  - 364.1/0660977311 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi.
KW  - Gangs
KW  - Illinois
KW  - Chicago
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Chicago (Ill.)
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -