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Please Recommend a Memoir or Biography about Gangs

 
 
Reply Mon 11 Feb, 2008 11:45 am
To my well-read cyber-friends on the Books forum:

I am looking for a memoir or biography that focuses on life in an urban street gang. It must be published after 1990 and if I am really lucky it will focus on a member or members of gangs based in Chicago or any Great Lakes city: Gangster Disciples, Folks, Vice Lords, etc. But you can't really go wrong with the Bloods or the Crips either (actually, you could really go wrong with them, but you get my drift).

I would conduct my own research, go under cover in an area such as Chicago's Garfield Park, but unfortunately I am allergic to murder.

Thank you for your assistance.
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Gala
 
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Reply Mon 11 Feb, 2008 11:50 am
Hi Gargamel, what about this--

Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America By Geoffrey Canada

It's not specifically what you are looking for, but it's a good book and might assist you in some way.
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JPB
 
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Reply Mon 11 Feb, 2008 01:29 pm
http://www.gaylords712.com/book.html

Don't know when this was written...
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JPB
 
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Reply Mon 11 Feb, 2008 01:33 pm
maybe this one...
http://www.amazon.com/Nation-Lords-Autobiography-Vice/dp/0881336289/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b
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boomerang
 
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Reply Mon 11 Feb, 2008 04:58 pm
typing on wii= hard

check out "random family" it is great bronx street life story

sorry me tarzan today
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Gargamel
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 09:29 am
Thanks, guys!

After combing through some overly sensational, cliche-riddled memoirs, I've found the perfect book for my needs: People and Folks: Gangs, Crime, and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City.
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