Synopses & Reviews
"Vivid, lively, and yet theoretically informed, a triumph of patient and sustained fieldwork. . . . Jankowski presents the gang and its members not as pathological departures from social norms, but as shrewd and resourceful operators."Michael Lipsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Islands in the Street fills a wide gap in the literature on gangs. Jankowski's innovative model of gang participation and organization is important and elegant, guaranteeing that this will be the book on gangs for the next ten years, if not longer."Ruth Horowitz, University of Delaware
About the Author
Martín Sánchez Jankowski is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Chicano/Latino Policy Project Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley.
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Introduction
1. A Theory of Life, Social Change, and Preservation in Poor Neighborhoods
2. Hosting a Home: Competing Agendas for Life in Public Housing
3. Living Refuge: Social Change and Preservation in the Housing Project
4. Provisions for Life: Making the Mom-and-Pop Store a Neighborhood Institution
5. Taking Care of Business: Social Change and Preservation in the Mom-and-Pop Store
6. Not Just a Clip Joint: Hair Shops and the Institution of Grooming
7. Life on the Edge: Social Change and Preservation in the Hair Shop
8. The Gang's All Here: Fathering a Bastard Institution
9. All in the Family: Mothering the Gang as a Bastard Institution
10. Whither the Neighborhood High School? Contending Roles and Functions
11. School Works: The Dynamics of Two Production Lines
Conclusion
Methodological Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index