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Gang Leader for a Day
Gang Leader for a Day
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Author:
Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
ISBN:
978-0-14-103091-3
Publication Date:
Mar 2009
Publisher:
Penguin Books, Limited
Book Format:
Paperback
List Price:
AUD $24.99
Book Description:
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Book Details
Pages:
320
Detailed Subjects:
Social Science / Criminology
Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
Education / Student Life & Student Affairs
Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
Social Science / Sociology / Urban
Physical Dimensions
(W X L X H)
:
13 x 19.6 x 1.9 cm
Book Weight:
0.238 Kilograms
Author Biography
Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi
(Author)
Sudhir Venkatesh is William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is a researcher and writer on urban neighborhoods in the United States (New York, Chicago) and Paris, France. He is also a documentary film-maker. His most recent book is Gang Leader for a Day. In 2006 he also published Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor about illegal economies in Chicago. Off the Books received a Best Book Award from Slate.Com (2006) as well as the C. Wright Mills Award (2007). His first book, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (2000) explored life in Chicago public housing.
He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. He was a Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University from 1996-1999. He is currently Director of the Center for Urban Research and Policy, and Director of the Charles H. Revson Fellowship Program, both at Columbia University. 030
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