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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Umemoto, Karen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Gangs > California > Los Angeles.
Ethnic conflict > California > Los Angeles.
Conflits ethniques > Californie > Los Angeles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
Ethnic conflict
Gangs
Race relations
Venice (Los Angeles, Calif.) > Race relations.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Race relations.
California > Los Angeles
California > Los Angeles > Venice
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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