From South Central to Southside

Gang Transnationalism, Masculinity, and Disorganized Violence in Belize City

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Baird, Adam

TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback

217 Seiten

Englisch

Temple University Presserschienen am12.07.2024

When he visited in 2011, sociologist Adam Baird wondered what the Bloods and Crips were doing in Southside Belize City. He soon discovered that migrant Belizean members of colors gangs from South Central Los Angeles were deported there in the 1980s. Once established back home, membership in the Bloods and Crips was seen as an aspirational pathway to manhood for the urban underclass.From South Central to Southside charts the genesis and evolution of a transnational gang culture. Baird provides firsthand interviews with gang members and narco families and explains the surprising source of Belize City´s severe violence and skyrocketing homicide rates. He identifies gang violence in the U.S. and Belize as stemming from populations blighted by historical, brutal inequality and marginalization. Analyzing the gendered dynamics as young men and women face the temptations, risks, and dangers of gang life, Baird shines a light on chronic vulnerability" in Belize City.mehr

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KlappentextWhen he visited in 2011, sociologist Adam Baird wondered what the Bloods and Crips were doing in Southside Belize City. He soon discovered that migrant Belizean members of colors gangs from South Central Los Angeles were deported there in the 1980s. Once established back home, membership in the Bloods and Crips was seen as an aspirational pathway to manhood for the urban underclass.From South Central to Southside charts the genesis and evolution of a transnational gang culture. Baird provides firsthand interviews with gang members and narco families and explains the surprising source of Belize City´s severe violence and skyrocketing homicide rates. He identifies gang violence in the U.S. and Belize as stemming from populations blighted by historical, brutal inequality and marginalization. Analyzing the gendered dynamics as young men and women face the temptations, risks, and dangers of gang life, Baird shines a light on chronic vulnerability" in Belize City.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-4399-2334-4

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

FormatTrade Paperback (USA)

Verlag

Temple University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2024

Erscheinungsdatum12.07.2024

Seiten217 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 152 mm, Höhe 229 mm, Dicke 13 mm