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008			071001s2008 nyu 001 0aeng
020			_a9780143114932 (pbk.) _c$16.00
040			_aBLR
082	0	0	_a364.10660977311 VEN _223 _b000937
100	1	0	_aVenkatesh, Sudhir Alladi.
245	1	0	_aGang leader for a day : _ba rogue sociologist takes to the streets / _cSudhir Venkatesh.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c2008.
300			_axiv, 302 p. : _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_a"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			_aThe 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. 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	1	0	_aVenkatesh, Sudhir Alladi.
650		0	_aGangs _zIllinois _zChicago.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _zIllinois _zChicago.
651		0	_aChicago (Ill.) _xSocial conditions.
856	4	1	_3Table of contents _uhttp://openisbn.com/isbn/014311493X/
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