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Author:

Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Penguin Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xiv, 302 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Gangs--Chicago.--Chicago.
African Americans--Chicago.--Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions.
Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi.

Notes:

Includes index.

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.

ISBN:

1594201501
9781594201509

LCCN:

2007040170

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