Islands in the street : gangs and American urban society / Martín Sánchez Jankowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez-Jankowski, Martín, 1945-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gangs--United States--Cross-cultural studies.

Gangs.

Cross-cultural studies.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 382 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991]

Contents:

1 A Theory of Life, Social Change, and Preservation in Poor Neighborhoods

2 Hosting a Home: Competing Agendas for Life in Public Housing

3 Living Refuge: Social Change and Preservation in the Housing Project

4 Provisions for Life: Making the Mom-and-Pop Store a Neighborhood Institution

5 Taking Care of Business: Social Change and Preservation in the Mom-and-Pop Store

6 Not Just a Clip Joint: Hair Shops and the Institution of Grooming

7 Life on the Edge: Social Change and Preservation in the Hair Shop

8 The Gang's All Here: Fathering a Bastard Institution

9 All in the Family: Mothering the Gang as a Bastard Institution

10 Whither the Neighborhood High School? Contending Roles and Functions

11 School Works: The Dynamics of Two Production Lines.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520072642

OCLC:

22451190