Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings : : Youth Gangs in Postwar New York /

Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings : : Youth Gangs in Postwar New York / / Eric C. Schneider.

They called themselves "Vampires," "Dragons," and "Egyptian Kings." They were divided by race, ethnicity, and neighborhood boundaries, but united by common styles, slang, and codes of honor. They fought--and sometimes killed--to protect and expand their territories. In...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Schneider, Eric C.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1999
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (354 p.) :; 11 halftones, 3 line illus., 5 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • PREFACE Crossing 96th Street
  • INTRODUCTION The Capeman and the Vampires
  • CHAPTER ONE Remaking New York
  • CHAPTER TWO Discovering Gangs: The Role of Race in the 1940s
  • CHAPTER THREE Defending Place: Ethnicity and Territory
  • CHAPTER FOUR Becoming Men: The Use of the Streets in Defining
  • CHAPTER FIVE Making a Gang Culture: Form, Style, and Ritual in the Gang World
  • CHAPTER SIX Leaving the Gang: Pathways into Adulthood
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Intervening in Gangs: The Problems and Possibilities of Social Work
  • CHAPTER EIGHT Drugs, Politics, and Gangs, 1960-1975
  • CONCLUSION Comparing Gangs: Contemporary Gangs in Historical Perspective
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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