Curbstone Dragons
Author : Theodore Lester Harris
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Readers (Elementary)
ISBN : 9780878924301
Author : Theodore Lester Harris
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Readers (Elementary)
ISBN : 9780878924301
Author : Theodore L. Harris
Publisher :
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 46,59 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Reading (Elementary)
ISBN : 9780878929313
Author : Theodore Lester Harris
Publisher :
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Reading (Elementary)
ISBN : 9780878924318
Author : Theodore Lester Harris
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 15,2 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Readers (Primary)
ISBN : 9780878929337
Author :
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Basal reading instruction
ISBN :
Author : Eric C. Schneider
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0691223300
They called themselves "Vampires," "Dragons," and "Egyptian Kings." They were divided by race, ethnicity, and neighborhood boundaries, but united by common styles, slang, and codes of honor. They fought--and sometimes killed--to protect and expand their territories. In postwar New York, youth gangs were a colorful and controversial part of the urban landscape, made famous by West Side Story and infamous by the media. This is the first historical study to explore fully the culture of these gangs. Eric Schneider takes us into a world of switchblades and slums, zoot suits and bebop music to explain why youth gangs emerged, how they evolved, and why young men found membership and the violence it involved so attractive. Schneider begins by describing how postwar urban renewal, slum clearances, and ethnic migration pitted African-American, Puerto Rican, and Euro-American youths against each other in battles to dominate changing neighborhoods. But he argues that young men ultimately joined gangs less because of ethnicity than because membership and gang violence offered rare opportunities for adolescents alienated from school, work, or the family to win prestige, power, adulation from girls, and a masculine identity. In the course of the book, Schneider paints a rich and detailed portrait of everyday life in gangs, drawing on personal interviews with former members to re-create for us their language, music, clothing, and social mores. We learn what it meant to be a "down bopper" or a "jive stud," to "fish" with a beautiful "deb" to the sounds of the Jesters, and to wear gang sweaters, wildly colored zoot suits, or the "Ivy League look." He outlines the unwritten rules of gang behavior, the paths members followed to adulthood, and the effects of gang intervention programs, while also providing detailed analyses of such notorious gang-related crimes as the murders committed by the "Capeman," Salvador Agron. Schneider focuses on the years from 1940 to 1975, but takes us up to the present in his conclusion, showing how youth gangs are no longer social organizations but economic units tied to the underground economy. Written with a profound understanding of adolescent culture and the street life of New York, this is a powerful work of history and a compelling story for a general audience.
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Page : pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Readers (Elementary)
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1610 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Author : Texas Education Agency
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Education
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN :