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Gang Leader for a Day

副标题: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

ISBN: 9781594201509

出版社: Penguin Press

出版年: 2008-1-10

页数: 320

定价: USD 25.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介


First introduced in Freakonomics , here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics . Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh managed to gain entr?e into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.

When Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty. A first-year grad student hoping to impress his professors with his boldness, he never imagined that as a result of the assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there.

Over the next seven years, Venkatesh got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his privileged position of unprecedented access, he observed JT and the rest of the gang as they operated their crack-selling business, conducted PR within their community, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang's complex organizational structure.

In Hollywood-speak, Gang Leader for a Day is The Wire meets Harvard University. It's a brazen, page turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. It is also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT-two young and ambitious men a universe apart.

作者简介


素德·文卡特斯,哥伦比亚大学教授,有很多关于美国贫困问题的著述,同时还参与了法国和美国郊区贫困的比较研究项目;有着发育过度的好奇心和发育不良的恐惧感,总是深入调查人群,不顾环境险恶,在学校里一直被视为异类。他的很多著作、故事和文件资料常常出现于《美国瞭望》(The American Prospect)、《如此美国生活》(This American Life),以及PBS和美国国家公共无线电台。

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