Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction vii
4. PART 1. THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
5. 1. A Note on Social Theory and the American Street Gang 3
6. 2. Toward a Typology of Contemporary Mexican American Youth Gangs 12
7. 3. The Negligible Role of Gangs in Drug Distribution in New York City in the 1990s 41
8. 4. Marginal Youth, Personal Identity, and the Contemporary Gang: Reconstructing the Social World? 62
9. PART 2. GANGS AND POLITICS
10. 5. Gangs and the Contemporary Urban Struggle: An Unappreciated Aspect of Gangs 77
11. 6. Urban Street Activists: Gang and Community Efforts to Bring Peace and Justice to Los Angeles Neighborhoods 95
12. PART 3. GANGS, AGENCY, AND AT-RISK YOUTH
13. 7. The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation and the Spirituality of Resistance: Agency, Social Cohesion, and Liberating Rituals in the Making of a Street Organization 119
14. 8. Education in the Reform of Street Organizations in New York City 136
15. PART 4. WOMEN AND GANGS
16. 9. Liberating Yet Limiting: The Paradox of Female Gang Membership 161
17. 10. Amor de Reina! The Pushes and Pulls of Group Membership among the Latin Queens 183
18. PART 5. GANGS AND SOCIAL CONTROL
19. 11. Gangs and the Law 213
20. 12. The Gang Crackdown in the Prisons of Massachusetts: Arbitrary and Harsh Treatment Can Only Make Matters Worse 228
21. PART 6. GANGS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
22. 13. On the Subject of Gang Photography 255
23. 14. From Civil War to Gang War: The Tragedy of Edgar Bolanos 283
24. 15. Snapshots of a Movement: The New York Latin Kings and Queens 1996–99 314
25. Contributors 337
26. Index 341