wyszukanych pozycji: 6
A Rainbow of Gangs: Street Cultures in the Mega-City
ISBN: 9781477327050 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner, Best Book on Ethnic and Racial Politics in a Local or Urban Setting , Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics of the American Political Science Association, 2002 This cross-cultural study of Los Angeles gangs identifies the social and economic factors that lead to gang membership and underscores their commonality across four ethnic groups--Chicano, African American, Vietnamese, and Salvadorian. With nearly 1,000 gangs and 200,000 gang members, Los Angeles holds the dubious distinction of being the youth gang capital of the United States. The process of street...
Winner, Best Book on Ethnic and Racial Politics in a Local or Urban Setting , Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics of the American Polit...
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93,67 zł |
The Projects : Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles
ISBN: 9780292717312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Winner, ALLA Prize for Best Book on Latina/o Anthropology, 2008 The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high percentage of resident families with a history of persistent poverty, gang involvement, and crime. In some families, members of three generations have belonged to gangs. Many other Pico Gardens families, however, have managed to avoid the cycle of gang involvement. In this work, Vigil adds to the tradition of poverty research and elaborates on the association of family dynamics and gang membership. The main objective of his research was to... Winner, ALLA Prize for Best Book on Latina/o Anthropology, 2008 The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high pe... |
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104,09 zł |
Multiple Marginality and Gangs: Through a Prism Darkly
ISBN: 9781793613318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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422,04 zł |
Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California
ISBN: 9780292711198 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, community leaders and law enforcement officials have approached the problem, not as something that needs to be understood, but only as something to be gotten rid of. Rejecting that approach, James D. Vigil asserts that only by understanding the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs can gang violence be ended. Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil... Within the Mexican American barrios of Los Angeles, gang activity, including crime and violent acts, has grown and flourished. In the past, communi... |
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Multiple Marginality and Gangs: Through a Prism Darkly
ISBN: 9781793613332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Human Targets: Schools, Police, and the Criminalization of Latino Youth
ISBN: 9780226090993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target--flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Faced with the choice of escalating a drug turf war or eking out a living elsewhere, he turned to a teacher, who mentored him and helped him find a job at an auto shop. That job would alter the course of his whole life--putting him on the road to college and eventually a PhD. Now, Rios is a rising star, hailed for his work studying the lives of African American and Latino youth. In Human Targets, Rios takes us to the streets of...
At fifteen, Victor Rios found himself a human target--flat on his ass amid a hail of shotgun fire, desperate for money and a place on the street. Face...
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104,14 zł |