American project : the rise and fall of a modern ghetto /
"Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, American Project is the story of daily life in an American public housing complex. Venkatesh draws on his relationships with tenants, gang members, police officers, and local organizations to offer an intimate portrai...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2000.
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Table of Contents:
- A place to call home
- Doing the Hustle
- "What's it like to be in Hell?"
- Tenants face off with the gang
- Street-gang diplomacy
- The beginning of the end of a modern ghetto.
