Mean Streets

Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-520-25747-4
Verlag: UCAL POD

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 416 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 611 g

Reihe: American Crossroads

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Diamond, Andrew J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgments

Maps

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

Notes

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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