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Divide & Conquer - Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict (Hardcover)
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Divide & Conquer - Race, Gangs, Identity, and Conflict (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Transgression
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Hyper-criminalization and the normalization of violence was an
integral aspect of Robert Weide's formative years growing up in Los
Angeles in the 1980s and 1990s, where Sureno, Crip, and Blood gangs
maintained a precarious coexistence, often punctuated by racialized
gang violence. His insider status informs Divide & Conquer,
which considers how the capitalist economy, the race concept, and
nationalist ideology have made gang members the instruments of
their own oppression, resulting in racialized sectarian conflicts
spanning generations between African American and Latino gangs in
Los Angeles and California's prisons. While gang members may fail
to appreciate the deeper historical and conceptual foundations of
these conflicts, they rarely credit naked bigotry as the root
cause. As Weide asserts, they divide themselves according to
inherited groupist identities, thereby turning them against one
another in protracted blood feuds across gang lines and racial
lines. Weide explores both the historical foundations and the
conceptual and cultural boundaries and biases that divide gang
members across racial lines, detailing case studies of specific
racialized gang conflicts between Sureno, Crip, and Blood gangs.
Weide employs mixed-methods research, having spent nearly a decade
on ethnographic fieldwork and conducted over one hundred formal
interviews with gang members and gang enforcement officers
concerning taboo subjects like prison and gang politics, and
transracial gang membership. Divide & Conquer concludes with
encouraging developments in recent years, as gang members
themselves, on their own volition, have intervened to build
solidarity and bring racialized gang conflicts between them to an
end.
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