Review

In his first semester of graduate school, Sudhir Venkatesh was eager to impress his professors and work out what his research interests might be. When asked to do some postdate work in the Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago, Venkatesh approached the task with the sort of child resembling enthusiasm one might expect from a modernistic student. Within hours of starting his survey, Venkatesh found himself being held hostage by members of the Black Kings, the group that controlled most of the area.

Unexpectedly, Venkatesh made friends with the local attractor of the Black Kings, J.T. This friendship gave Venkatesh J.T.s support to spend more(prenominal) time in the neighborhood, asking questions and filling in inside information for what turned out to be an intensely detailed scotch and ethnographic survey of the Chicago projects.

In Gang drawing card for a daytime Venkatesh chronicles more than a decade of on the job(p) with and researching the members of this residential district and the complicated relationship between the gang and the community as well as J.T. and Venkatesh.

I cant thank Jill (Fizzy Thoughts) enough for pushing me to read this book. After I commented on her review last year, she e-mailed me with some other thoughts just about how much parts of the book reminded her of what I do as a journalist.



She suggested the ethical conflicts and insider issues would be fascinating, and she was right. When Venkatesh enters the neighborhood, he brings with him many of the simple beliefs about how life in an area controlled by a gang works. The strength of Gang Leader for a Day is the way Venkatesh shows his process of learning what life there is like and articulating those findings to a reader.

I was surprised to learn how the gang is twain a harm and a benefit to the community. While the gang does conduct drug business in the area, members are too charged with protecting residents and keeping orderliness in the projects when the natural law wont do anything. While members of the community settle taxes to the gang for these...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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