in the 90's, at least from what i remember, lacked nuance: gangs = bad. The principal aspect of the plague - agony - was constantly underrated.Įven the news reports from the height of the gang epidemic in l.a. as leovy states in this book: Somehow, mainstream America had managed to make a fetish of South Central murders and yet still ignore them. we probably should have had less alcohol during these sessions.Īll of this to say that i found this book to be an incredibly informative and thorough examination of a phenomenon i have never personally witnessed, and one which has been dramatized and even glamorized on the big and small screens to such an extent that the real, human element of it gets glossed over. those two movies are forever wedded in my mind, to the point where i can't remember which is which, causing me some vague white anxiety that admitting this makes me come across as racist, until i remember that the following week, we did another mini-marathon of heat and casino, and in my mind that is also one long, confusing movie. The bulk of my knowledge of west coast gang culture comes from rap music, the shield, and my poorly-thought-out decision to get many 40's with my ex and watch a double feature of menace II society and boyz n the hood.
no one here hails cabs to perform drive-bys. We don't have a lot of gang activity around here. from there, i went directly to nyc for college, and despite what the warriors
whose residents were mostly elderly transplanted french canadians. I grew up in a tiny village located in the smallest state in the u.s.
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