God's Gangs : Barrio Ministry, Masculinity, and Gang Recovery /

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Los Angeles is the epicenter of the American gang problem. Rituals and customs from Los Angeles' eastside gangs, including hand signals, graffiti, and clothing styles, have spread to small towns and big cities alike. Many see the problem with gangs as related to urban marginality - for a Latino...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Flores, Edward
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Hispanic American gangs.
Church work with Hispanic Americans.
Church and social problems.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
Gangs americains d'origine latino-americaine > Californie > Los Angeles.
Ex-gangsters > Services > Californie > Los Angeles.
Église et problemes sociaux > Californie > Los Angeles.
Hommes americains d'origine latino-americaine > Californie > Los Angeles > Conditions sociales.
Hispanic American gangs > California > Los Angeles.
Ex-gang members > Rehabilitation > California > Los Angeles.
Ex-gang members > Services for > California > Los Angeles.
Church work with Hispanic Americans > California > Los Angeles.
Church and social problems > California > Los Angeles.
Hispanic American men > California > Los Angeles > Social conditions.
California > Los Angeles.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Los Angeles is the epicenter of the American gang problem. Rituals and customs from Los Angeles' eastside gangs, including hand signals, graffiti, and clothing styles, have spread to small towns and big cities alike. Many see the problem with gangs as related to urban marginality - for a Latino immigrant population struggling with poverty and social integration, gangs offer a close-knit community. Yet, as the author argues in this book, gang members can be successfully redirected out of gangs through efforts that change the context in which they find themselves, as well as their notions of what it means to be a man. The author illuminates how Latino men recover from gang life through involvement in urban, faith-based organizations. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with Homeboy Industries, a Jesuit-founded non-profit that is one of the largest gang intervention programs in the country, and with Victory Outreach, a Pentecostal ministry with over 600 chapters, the author demonstrates that organizations such as these facilitate recovery from gang life by enabling gang members to reinvent themselves as family men and as members of their community. The book offers a window into the process of redefining masculinity. As the author convincingly shows, gang members are not trapped in a cycle of poverty and marginality. With the help of urban ministries, such men construct a reformed barrio masculinity to distance themselves from gang life. --
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781479818129

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