Format:
Book
Author:
Venkatesh, Sudhir, 1966-
Title:
Gang leader for a day : a rogue sociologist takes to the streets / Sudhir Venkatesh.
Publisher, Date:
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2008.
Description:
xiv, 302 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
Subjects:
Venkatesh, Sudhir, 1966-
Gangs -- Illinois -- Chicago.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions.
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.
ISBN:
9780143114932 (pbk.)
014311493X (pbk.)
Other Number:
233547930
System Availability:
4
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
1402234
Call Number:
364.1/0660977311
Course Reserves:
0
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3