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6%OFFJames Diego Vigil - The Projects. Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles.  - 9780292717312 - V9780292717312
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The Projects. Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles.

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Description for The Projects. Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles. Paperback. Takes look into the reality of life in an East Los Angeles housing project where gangs have a longstanding presence. This work examines the wide variations in income and social capital that exist among the ostensibly poor, mostly Mexican American residents. Num Pages: 256 pages, 41 b&w illus., 2 figures, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; JKV; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 161 x 15. Weight in Grams: 482.

2008 — ALLA Prize for Best Book on Latina/o Anthropology

The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high percentage of resident families with a history of persistent poverty, gang involvement, and crime. In some families, members of three generations have belonged to gangs. Many other Pico Gardens families, however, have managed to avoid the cycle of gang involvement.

In this work, Vigil adds to the tradition of poverty research and elaborates on the association of family dynamics and gang membership. The main objective of his research was to discover what factors make some families more ... Read more

By studying life in Pico Gardens, Vigil feels we can better understand how human agency interacts with structural factors to produce the reality that families living in all public housing developments must contend with daily.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Austin, TX, United States
ISBN
9780292717312
SKU
V9780292717312
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About James Diego Vigil
James Diego Vigil is Professor of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. He is also the author of A Rainbow of Gangs: Street Cultures in the Mega-City and Barrio Gangs: Street Life and Identity in Southern California.

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