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Author:

Diamond, Andrew J.

Title:

Mean streets : Chicago youths and the everyday struggle for empowerment in the multiracial city, 1908-1969 / Andrew J. Diamond.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xiii, 396 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Juvenile delinquency--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Gangs--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Immigrants--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Social integration--Chicago--Chicago--History--20th century.
Group identity--Chicago.--Chicago.
Migratie (demografie)
Immigranten.
Identiteit.
Sociale cohesie.
Verenigde Staten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-368) and index.

Contents:

Bringing youths into the frame -- The generation of 1919 -- Between school and work in the interwar years -- Hoodlums and Zoot-Suiters : fear, youth, and militancy during wartime -- Angry young men : race, class, and masculinity in the postwar years -- Teenage terrorism, fighting gangs, and collective action in the era of civil rights -- Youth and power -- Somewhere over the rainbow.

Series:

American crossroads ; 27

ISBN:

0520257472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520257474 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520257235 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520257238 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)259970292

LCCN:

2008041622

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)