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1 online resource (404 pages) |
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| Summary |
Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Durán, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted in ethnographic research and almost two decades of direct experience with gangs, Durán completes the first-ever study to follow so many marginalized groups so intensely for so long, revealing their core characteristics, behavior, and activities within two unlikely American cities. Durán spent five years in Denver, Colorado, and Ogden, Utah, conducti. |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; One: Researching Gangs as an Insider; Two: The War on Gangs in the Post-Civil Rights Era; Three: Racialized Oppression and the Emergence of Gangs; Four: Demonizing Gangs Through Religious Righteousness and Suppressed Activism; Five: Negotiating Membership for an Adaptation to Colonization: The Gang; Six: The Only Locotes Standing: The Persistence of Gang Ideals; Seven: Barrio Empowerment as a Strategy for Transcending Gangs; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Gangs -- Colorado -- Denver.
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Gangs. |
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Colorado -- Denver. |
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Gangs -- Utah -- Ogden.
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Utah -- Ogden. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Duran, Robert J. Gang Life in Two Cities : An Insider's Journey. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231158664 |
| ISBN |
9780231530965 (electronic book) |
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023153096X (electronic book) |
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