A rainbow of gangs : : street cultures in the mega-city / / James Diego Vigil ; foreword by Joan W. Moore.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press,, [2002] 2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.