Out of the red : my life of gangs, prison, and redemption / Christian L Bolden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolden, Christian L., author.

Series:

Critical issues in crime and society.

Critical issues in crime and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bolden, Christian L.

Gang members--Texas--Biography.

Gang members.

Prisoners--Texas--Biography.

Prisoners.

Ex-convicts--Texas--Biography.

Ex-convicts.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 216 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Out of the Red is one man's pathbreaking story of how social forces and personal choices intertwined to deliver an unfortunate fate. A childhood of poverty, institutional discrimination, violence, hopelessness, and other traumatic experiences, his life course took him through the treacherous landscape of street gangs at the age of 14. For a kid from poverty and family strife, thrown away by the public education system, the Bloods offered a sense of family, protection, excitement, and power. Incarceration during the Texas prison boom, and 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Poverty

Adultism

Neighborhoods

Bangin' in San Antone

Escalation

Purgatory

Texas hold 'em

Fellowship

Between the Lines

Transitions

Wally World

Starting from the bottom

Letters

Outcast

Freedom

Pinnacles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781978813434

1978813430

OCLC:

1179050809