Renegade dreams : living through injury in gangland Chicago / Laurence Ralph.
Every morning Chicagoans wake up to the same stark headlines that read like some macabre score: "13 shot, 4 dead overnight across the city," and nearly every morning the same elision occurs: what of the nine other victims? As with war, much of our focus on inner-city violence is on the death toll, b...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London :
University of Chicago Press,
2014.
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| Physical Description: | xx, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction : the underside of injury, or, How to dream like a renegade
- Field notes : late death
- Development, or, Why grandmothers ally with the gang
- Field notes : early funerals
- Nostalgia, or, The stories the gang tells about itself
- Field notes : inside jokes
- Authenticity, or, Why people can't leave the gang
- Field notes : getting in
- Disability, or, Why a gang leader helps stop the violence
- Field notes : resilience
- Disease, or, How a will to survive helps healing
- Field notes : framing
- Conclusion : the frame, or, how to get out of an isolated space
- Postscript : a renegade dream come true.