Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters
Steven R. Cureton
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Description for Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters
Hardback. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JFSL3; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 308.
Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. Unfortunately, the voice of the ghetto was politically tempered, silenced, ignored, and at times rebuked by a black leadership that seemed to be preoccupied with a middle-class integrationist agenda. As a result, a once strong sense of universal brotherhood became fractured and the mood of the oppressed shifted to confusion only to be tempered by relentless frustration, out of which ... Read more
Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. Unfortunately, the voice of the ghetto was politically tempered, silenced, ignored, and at times rebuked by a black leadership that seemed to be preoccupied with a middle-class integrationist agenda. As a result, a once strong sense of universal brotherhood became fractured and the mood of the oppressed shifted to confusion only to be tempered by relentless frustration, out of which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
100
Condition
New
Number of Pages
100
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761855224
SKU
V9780761855224
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About Steven R. Cureton
Steven R. Cureton is associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and the author of Hoover Crips: When Cripin' Becomes a Way of Life (2008). His research appears in the Journal of Gang Research, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Criminal Justice, African-American Research Perspectives, Huff's Gangs in America III, and Markowitz and Brown's The System in ... Read more
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