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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460485803321

Autore

Vigil James Diego <1938->

Titolo

A rainbow of gangs : street cultures in the mega-city / / James Diego Vigil ; foreword by Joan W. Moore

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin : , : University of Texas Press, , [2002]

©2002

ISBN

0-292-74814-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Disciplina

364.1/06/60979494

Soggetti

Gangs - California - Los Angeles

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [188]-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Looking at gangs cross-culturally -- Mexican Americans in the barrios of Los Angeles -- "I just wanted to act loco" : Puppet's story -- Blacks in Los Angeles : from Central Avenue to South Central Los Angeles -- "I noticed the problem but never had the cure" : Mookie's story -- Vietnamese in Southern California -- "You couldn't hang by yourself" : Huc's story -- Salvadorans in Los Angeles : the Pico-Union area -- "Where is my father?" : Arturo's story -- Charting a new future for urban youth.