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OSt |
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20131101174552.0 |
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071001s2008 nyu 001 0aeng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780143114932 (pbk.) |
| Terms of availability |
$16.00 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
Indian Institute for Human Settlements-Bangalore |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
364.10660977311 VEN |
| Edition number |
23 |
| Item number |
000937 |
| 100 10 - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Gang leader for a day : |
| Remainder of title |
a rogue sociologist takes to the streets / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Sudhir Venkatesh. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Penguin Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiv, 302 p. : |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
"How does it feel to be black and poor?" -- First days on Federal Street -- Someone to watch over me -- Gang leader for a day -- Ms. Bailey's neighborhood -- The hustler and the hustled -- Black and blue -- The stay-together gang. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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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. This is the full story of how Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When first-year grad student Venkatesh walked into one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a survey on urban poverty. He never imagined that he would befriend a gang leader and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under his protection. He got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his position of unprecedented access, he observed the gang as they operated their crack-selling business and rose or fell within the ranks of the gang's complex organizational structure.--From publisher description.<br/>Recounts the story of a young sociologist whose infiltration of a Chicago drug gang was originally introduced in the work "Freakonomics," describing the author's idealism, his friendship with gang leader JT, and his witness to the organization's crack-selling trade. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Gangs |
| Geographic subdivision |
Illinois |
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Chicago. |
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African Americans |
| Geographic subdivision |
Illinois |
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Chicago. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Chicago (Ill.) |
| General subdivision |
Social conditions. |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Materials specified |
Table of contents |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://openisbn.com/isbn/014311493X/">http://openisbn.com/isbn/014311493X/</a> |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Book |
