Mean streets : Chicago youths and the everyday struggle for empowerment in the multiracial city, 1908-1969 /

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Author / Creator:	Diamond, Andrew J.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Description:	xiii, 396 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	American crossroads ; 27
Subject:	Juvenile delinquency -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century. Gangs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century. Immigrants -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century. Social integration -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century. Group identity -- Illinois -- Chicago. Gangs. Group identity. Immigrants. Juvenile delinquency. Social integration. Illinois -- Chicago. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7735524

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ISBN:	9780520257238 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520257235 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780520257474 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520257472 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-368) and index.

Table of Contents:

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

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