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Gangs (Paperback, Student)
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Gangs (Paperback, Student)
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Loot Price R449
Discovery Miles 4 490
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Gang life is both the starting point and the dark side of the
American dream. Ethnic groups and immigrants have long turned to
gangs for protection and support when it was offered nowhere else.
From the Five Points to South Central L.A., Bowery Boys to Bloods
and Crips, the James gang to gangsta rap, gangs offer a largely
urban version of the American frontier: an opportunity and a refuge
for society's outlaws, outcasts, and outsiders. Featuring superb
writing drawn from the best fiction, nonfiction, and journalism,
Gangs takes the reader on a tour of this underground, from accounts
of New York's violent past by Herbert Asbury (The Gangs of New
York) and Mark Helprin (A Winter's Tale) to Hunter S. Thompson's
unflinching report from within the Hell's Angels and T. J. English
inside America's most notorious Vietnamese gang. Other selections
bring readers into the Irish, Italian, and Jewish Mobs as well as
the Triads of America's Chinatowns, and chart the role of the
vicious drug trade in contemporary gang life. With photographs and
its wild and turbulent tour through the American underworld, Gangs
paints a visceral and fascinating picture of a part of the American
experience that is more nightmare than dream.
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