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The Gangstas in Our Midst

While conducting this ethnography on 50 male African-American gang members, I sought to create a picture of the culture in which these young men existed. Over a two-year period, I observed and interviewed members from such groups as the Bloods, Crips, and the Blackstone Rangers in order to uncover the values, language, and rituals that defined membership in a gang, as well as the reasons why these males joined these groups in the first place.

• Author/Creator: Patton, P.L.
• Author's address: Human Sciences Press, Inc.
• Date Published: March
• Journal/Secondary Title: The Urban Review
• Number: 1
• Volume: 30
• Year: 1998

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Subject: Adolescents
• Subject: Black Students
• Subject: Social Support Groups

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