MARC Record from Western Washington University

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090 $aHV6439.U7$bC46 2008
100 1 $aVenkatesh, Sudhir Alladi.
245 10 $aGang leader for a day :$ba young sociologist crosses the line /$cSudhir Venkatesh ; with a foreword by Stephen J. Dubner.
260 $aLondon :$bAllen Lane,$c2008.
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505 0 $a"How does it feel to be black and poor?" -- First days on Federal Street -- Someone to watch over me -- Gang leader for a day -- Ms. Bailey's neighborhood -- The hustler and the hustled -- Black and blue -- The stay-together gang.
520 $aThe story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. This is the full story of how Venkatesh managed to gain entre{acute}e into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When first-year grad student Venkatesh walked into one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a survey on urban poverty. He never imagined that he would befriend a gang leader and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under his protection. He got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his position of unprecedented access, he observed the gang as they operated their crack-selling business and rose or fell within the ranks of the gang's complex organizational structure.--From publisher description.
600 10 $aVenkatesh, Sudhir Alladi.
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650 0 $aUrban poor$zIllinois$zChicago$xResearch.
650 0 $aGangs$zIllinois$zChicago.
651 0 $aChicago (Ill.)$xSocial conditions.
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