Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Rutland, Ted, 1977- author.
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| ISBN: | 9781773635965
1773635964
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| Notes: | Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Issued also in electronic formats.
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| Summary: | "This first critical history of a street gang in a Canadian city is a result of a four-year collaboration between a university professor (Ted Rutland) and the leader of les B̌langers (Maxime Auřlien). Out to Defend Ourselves tells the story of Montreal's first Haitian street gang, les B̌langers. It traces how the gang emerged from a group of Haitian friends, the children of migrants from Haiti in the 1970s. It documents the forms of racial violence they experienced and their battles against them. It also documents the everyday lives of the gang members, the petty crime some members engaged in to make ends meet, and how the police actions against the gang changed its nature and function - making it, finally, a more criminally oriented and violent formation. It is a story about a gang, but it is also a story of young Haitians making their lives in 1970s and 80s Montreal and a story about Montreal in a period of great change."--
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| Other form: | Online version: Aurélien, Maxime, 1966- Out to defend ourselves. Halifax ; Winnipeg : Fernwood Publishing, 2023 1773636200 9781773636207
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