Foreword: Reading John Hagedorn, Mike Davis
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Why Are Gangs Everywhere?
I. Globalizing Gangs
1. Ghetto, Favela, and Township: The Worlds Gangs Live In
2. Street Institutions: Why Some Gangs Won't Go Away
3. The Problem with Definitions: The Questionable Uniqueness of
Gangs
4. From Chicago to Mumbai: Touring the World of Gangs
II. Race, Space, and the Power of Identity
5. No Way Out: Demoralization, Racism, and Resistance Identity
6. A Tale of Two Gangs: The Hamburgs and the Conservative Vice
Lords
7. Reconsidering Culture: Race, Rap, and Resistance
8. Street Wars: Hip Hop and the Rise of Gangsta Culture
9. Contested Cities: Gentrification and the Ghetto
Conclusion: A Rose in the Cracks of Concrete
Notes
Index
John M. Hagedorn is associate professor of criminal justice and
senior research fellow at Great Cities Institute at the University
of Illinois, Chicago. He is editor of Gangs in the Global City;
co-editor of Female Gangs in America: Essays on Girls, Gangs, and
Gender; and author of the highly influential People and Folks:
Gangs, Crime, and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City.
MacArthur fellow Mike Davis is professor of history at the
University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books,
including Planet of Slums, City of Quartz, and Ecology of Fear.
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