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Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969

by Andrew J. Diamond
Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969

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"In a city that social scientists feel we know well, Mean Streets provides new and exciting insights into the spatial dimensions of urban life. Not afraid to talk about both attraction and repulsion, Diamond provocatively unearths the critical role of youthsand#151;ages 15 to 25and#151;in leading their wider communities in the negotiation of race."and#151;George Sanchez, author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture, and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles 1900-1945

"In Mean Streets, Andrew Diamond brilliantly bridges social, political, and cultural history. His deeply researched account of Chicago's black, white, and Latino youth subcultures offers a fresh perspective on the entangled histories of identity, power, and place. This is a first-rate book."and#151;Thomas J. Sugrue, author of Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North.

"This excellent social history of Chicago's youth gangs not only demonstrates their centrality to the vaunted community and turf consciousness of the city's neighborhoods; it also explains the widespread ethnic and racial conflict that has characterized the city for most of the twentieth century. Diamond accomplishes this with a remarkable amount of empirical research on the gritty streets, playgrounds and parks, dance halls, 'can houses' (brothels), and industrial wastelands in, between, and around these neighborhoods."and#151;James R. Barrett, author of Work and Community in 'The Jungle': Chicago's Packing House Workers, 1894-1922.

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and#8220;Diamond contends that young Euro-American men forged their masculine and racial identities . . . around their encounters with the colour line.and#8221;

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"In Mean Streets Andrew J. Diamond offers a fascinating, meticulous, and entertaining account of the relationship between youths, street culture, race, and racial violence in twentieth-century Chicago."

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"Mean Streetsis a deeply researched account of how youth gangs shaped neighborhood boundaries in Chicago."

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and#8220;Diamondand#8217;s engaging writing allows him to weave a rich tapestry about life in this multiracial city.and#8221;

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and#8220;Sugrue, Hirsch, Robert Self, and now Diamond...offer sophisticated understandngs of the origins of and#8216;a new configuration of inequality with rearranged featuresand#8217;.and#8221;

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and#8220;A fascinating, meticulous, and entertaining account. . . . An important, engaging book.and#8221;

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and#8220;Diamondand#8217;s book makes considerable contributions to multiple fields of scholarship.and#8221;

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"A book that will prove central to understanding Chicago, urban culture, and the role that youth gangs have played in their development."

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Mean Streets focuses on the streets, parks, schools, and commercial venues of Chicago from the era of the 1919 race riot to the civil rights battles of the 1960s to cast a new light on street gangs and to place youths at the center of the twentieth-century American experience. Andrew J. Diamond breaks new ground by showing that teens and young adults stood at the vanguard of grassroots mobilizations in working-class Chicago, playing key roles in the formation of racial identities as they defended neighborhood boundaries. Drawing from a wide range of sources to capture the experiences of young Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, Italians, Poles, and others in the multiracial city, Diamond argues that Chicago youths gained a sense of themselves in opposition to others.

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Andrew J. Diamond is Associate Professor of American History and Civilization at the Universitandeacute; Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3 in France.

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Introduction: Bringing Youths into the Frame

1. The Generation of 1919

2. Between School and Work in the Interwar Years

3. Hoodlums and Zoot-Suiters: Fear, Youth, and Militancy during Wartime

4. Angry Young Men: Race, Class, and Masculinity in the Postwar Years

5. Teenage Terrorism, Fighting Gangs, and Collective Action in the Era of Civil Rights

6. Youth and Power

Epilogue: Somewhere over the Rainbow

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Index


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ISBN:
9780520257474
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
06/01/2009
Publisher:
University of California Press
Series info:
American Crossroads
Language:
English
Pages:
396
Height:
1.04IN
Width:
6.32IN
Thickness:
1.13 in.
LCCN:
2008041622
Series:
American Crossroads
Series Number:
27
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2009
Series Volume:
27
UPC Code:
2800520257476
Author:
Andrew Diamond
Author:
Andrew J. Diamond
Subject:
Juvenile delinquency -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Subject:
Immigrants
Subject:
Crime-Criminology
Subject:
Gangs
Subject:
Immigrants -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History.

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