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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824733003321

Autore

Sanchez Reymundo

Titolo

My Bloody Life [[electronic resource] ] : The Making of a Latin King

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, 2007

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

364.1066092

977.3/11004687295/0092 B

Soggetti

Chicago (Ill.) - Social conditions - 20th century

Puerto Ricans - Illinois - Chicago

Sanchez, Reymundo

Violence - Illinois - Chicago

Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Table of Contents; Preface; 1 La Familia; 2 Chicago; 3 Humboldt Park; 4 The Beatings Begin; 5 The Spanish Lords; 6 Murder in the 'Hood; 7 My Teacher Maria; 8 No Paradise; 9 No Home; 10 Jenny; 11 Lords of Nothing; 12 Chi-West; 13 Coward; 14 Can't Be Normal Even If I Tried; 15 First Kill; 16 The Acceptable Difference; 17 Officer Friendly; 18 China; 19 Back to the Hunting Grounds; 20 Betrayed into a Coma; 21 Madness; 22 Rosie; 23 Convenient Agreement; 24 My Girl; 25 Prove Myself Worthy; 26 Rape; 27 Crowned; 28 Violence Rules; 29 Madman; 30 Losing Maplewood Park; 31 My Rosie; 32 Down Brother

33 Poor Rosie34 Juni; 35 Loca; 36 Morena, R.I.P.; 37 NRA? Lucky's Death; 38 Crazy Ways; 39 Disciplined; 40 No Lesson Learned; 41 Spread the Violence; 42 Enemies Near; 43 Disowned; 44 The Way It Is; 45 Another Addiction; 46 Close Call; 47 The Law; 48 Free?; 49 Older Woman; 50 Love Lost; 51 Lesson Learned, Finally; 52 Crownless; 53 Tragedies Continue With or Without Me

Sommario/riassunto

Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in America, became his



refuge and his world, but its violence cost him friends, freedom, self-respect, and nearly his life. This is a raw and powerful odyssey through the ranks of the new mafia, where the only people more dangerous than rival gangs are members of your own gang, who in one breath will say they'll die for you and in the next will o