The Truce : Lessons from an L.A. Gang War /

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This ethnography of a gang war in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Oakwood, just blocks from the famed Venice Beach boardwalk, provides a rare eyewitness account of the urban violence pervasive in the recent history of the United States. With seventeen people killed and more than fifty injured, the h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Umemoto, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Gangs.
Ethnic conflict.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Conflits ethniques > Californie > Los Angeles.
Ethnic conflict > California > Los Angeles.
Gangs > California > Los Angeles.
California > Los Angeles > Venice.
California > Los Angeles.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations.
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Urban conflict in multicultural cities
  • Understanding the morphology of conflict
  • The geography of multiple publics in Venice
  • Law enforcement policy and the Oakwood plan
  • The racialization of a gang war
  • Firefighters : suppression from without
  • Mediators : negotiation from within
  • Transforming racial conflict.

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