People and Folks,9780941702461

People and Folks

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780941702461
ISBN10: 0941702464
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-01-01
Publisher(s): Lake View Pr
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Table of Contents

Tables and Charts
xi(2)
Preface to the Second Edition xiii(4)
Preface xvii(2)
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction: Gangs and the Underclass A Comparative Perspective 3(16)
Joan Moore
What do we mean by "gang"? 4(2)
What do we mean by "underclass"? 6(2)
The possible relation between gangs and underclass 8(1)
How did the Chicano gangs emerge in Los Angeles? 9(2)
How do Milwaukee gangs compare with Los Angeles gangs? 11(3)
Milwaukee and Los Angeles: gangs and the future 14(2)
Gangs in "new" cities and old 16(3)
1 What We Don't Know About Gangs
19(18)
Scope of the problem
20(1)
Gangs, denial and the images of modern cities
21(2)
Gangs and the media
23(1)
Task forces, race and the underclass
24(2)
Too much theory, too few facts
26(2)
The Milwaukee Gang Research Project
28(3)
Talking to the "Top Dogs"
31(2)
What can we learn from Milwaukee's Gangs?
33(4)
2 What Happened to the Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous?
37(16)
Demographics: from polka to breakdance
39(2)
Economics: from white working class to black underclass
41(3)
Education: from learning to labor, to not learning at all
44(3)
From ethnic power to black powerlessness
47(2)
Conclusion: the need for reexamination
49(4)
3 How Do Gangs Get Started?
53(28)
What we know about how 1980s gangs began
54(1)
Thrasher and the subculturists
55(2)
Breakdancing and fighting: 1980-1983
57(7)
How the gangs grew
64(3)
How Milwaukee's gangs came to identify with Chicago's gangs
67(10)
"Satellite gangs"
77(4)
4 How Do Gangs Get Organized?
81(28)
Back to Thrasher, one more time
84(2)
What do Milwaukee's gangs look like?
86(8)
The activities of a gang
94(2)
David's story
96(3)
Are there "fighting gangs," "criminal gangs," and "drug-using gangs"?
99(2)
Hustling, drugs and survival
101(2)
Organized crime and Milwaukee gangs
103(2)
Conclusion: the formation process of Milwaukee's gangs
105(4)
5 Poor, Black and Twenty-One
109(22)
The underclass and the liberal-conservative debate
111(3)
Family decline
114(2)
The gang founders
116(8)
Profile of the founding group
124(2)
Education
126(1)
Summary: a generation on its way down
127(4)
6 Desegregation, Alienation, and Gangs in Milwaukee
131(18)
Desegregation and Milwaukee gangs
133(1)
Gangs and neighborhoods
134(1)
Kids without neighborhoods
135(3)
Al Capone and Martin Luther King
138(3)
Gangs and Drugs
141(2)
Gang violence
143(1)
Alienation and community-based institutions
144(3)
When community controls are lacking, the police are never far away
147(2)
7 Out of Sight, Out of Mind
149(22)
Stages in Milwaukee: Stage I. "We couldn't have gangs here": 1981-1984
151(2)
Liberals and denial
153(2)
Stage II. "We do have gangs!" 1984-1985
155(3)
Stage III. Out of sight, out of mind: 1985-?
158(5)
So where do we go from here?
163(3)
A Practical Agenda
166(5)
8 What Happened to the People and Folks? Postscript 1997
171(46)
The Milwaukee Drug Posse and Homegirl Studies
173(3)
Social Science and the Impact of Economic Restructuring
176(1)
Female Gangs and the Stability of Gender Roles
177(2)
The Influence of Mainstream American Culture
179(2)
Are Underclass Neighborhoods Disorganized?
181(2)
The Impact of Economic Restructuring on Milwaukee Gang Members
183(17)
1. What Happened to the People and Folks?
183(5)
Women Take a Different Path
186(2)
2. The Dark Side of the American Dream
188(10)
Women Talk about their Lives
193(3)
New Jacks and Violence
196(2)
3. The Drug Business and Social Disorganization
198(2)
Gang Drug Selling Organization and Poor Neighborhoods
200(4)
Violence and the Rise of the Illicit Economy
204(4)
Violence and the Status of New Organizations
208(1)
The Path Ahead
209(1)
Public Policy as Warfare
210(5)
Concluding Note
215(2)
Appendices 217(14)
Notes 231(21)
References 252(23)
Index 275

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