Out of the Red : : My Life of Gangs, Prison, and Redemption / / Christian L. Bolden.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
• VerfasserIn: Bolden, Christian L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Issues in Crime and Society
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 12 b&w images, 3 color images, 10 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; Introduction --; Part I. Gangs --; 1. Poverty --; 2. Adultism --; 3. Neighborhoods --; 4. Bangin’ in San Antone --; 5. Escalation --; 6. Purgatory --; Part II. Prison --; 7. Texas Hold’em --; 8. Fellowship --; 9. Between the Lines --; 10. Transitions --; 11. Wally World --; 12. Starting from the Bottom --; 13. Letters --; Part III. Redemption --; 14. Outcast --; 15. Freedom --; 16. Pinnacles --; Appendix A: Lists of San Antonio Gangs Early to Mid-1990s --; Appendix B: San Antonio Gang Member Interviews --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781978813441; 9783110704716; 9783110704518; 9783110704723; 9783110704549; 9783110690330
• DOI: 10.36019/9781978813441
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Christian L. Bolden.

Out of the Red is one man’s pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices combined to deliver an unfortunate fate. After a childhood of poverty, institutional discrimination, violence, and being thrown away by the public education system, Bolden's life took him through the treacherous landscape of street gangs at the age of fourteen. The Bloods offered a sense of family, protection, excitement, and power. Incarcerated during the Texas prison boom, the teenage former gangster was thrust into a fight for survival as he navigated the perils of adult prison. As mass incarceration and prison gangs swallowed up youth like him, survival meant finding hope in a hopeless situation and carving a path to his own rehabilitation. Despite all odds, he forged a new path through education, ultimately achieving the seemingly impossible for a formerly incarcerated ex-gangbanger.