| Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969 Volume 27 Contributor(s): Diamond, Andrew J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520257472 ISBN-13: 9780520257474 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: "Mean Streets "focuses on twentieth-century Chicago beginning with the era of the race riot to cast a new light on Chicago's youth gangs and to place youths at the center of the American experience. Andrew J. Diamond breaks new ground by showing that teens and young men stood at the vanguard of grassroots mobilizations in working-class Chicago, playing key roles in the formation of racial identities as they defended neighborhood boundaries. Drawing from a wide range of sources to capture the experiences of young Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, Italians, Poles, and others in the multiracial city, Diamond argues that from the early 1900s through the 1960s, youths in Chicago gained a sense of themselves in opposition to others. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Criminology - History | United States - General |
| Dewey: 364.360 |
| LCCN: 2008041622 |
| Series: American Crossroads |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 6.32" W x 9.07" (1.38 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mean Streets focuses on the streets, parks, schools, and commercial venues of Chicago from the era of the 1919 race riot to the civil rights battles of the 1960s to cast a new light on street gangs and to place youths at the center of the twentieth-century American experience. Andrew J. Diamond breaks new ground by showing that teens and young adults stood at the vanguard of grassroots mobilizations in working-class Chicago, playing key roles in the formation of racial identities as they defended neighborhood boundaries. Drawing from a wide range of sources to capture the experiences of young Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, Italians, Poles, and others in the multiracial city, Diamond argues that Chicago youths gained a sense of themselves in opposition to others. |