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- Off the books : the underground economy of the urban poor / by Venkatesh, Sudhir,1966-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-410) and index.Living underground -- Home at work -- The entrepreneur -- The street hustler -- The preacher -- Our gang -- As the shady world turns.- Subjects: Informal sector (Economics); Poor;
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- Floating city : a rogue sociologist lost and found in New York's underground economy / by Venkatesh, Sudhir,1966-;
When worlds collide -- New York, New York -- The shifting ground beneath your feet -- Moving on up -- Sex is a passport -- Adventures in role-playing -- Boundary issues -- Exit strategies.Based on Venkatesh's interviews with New York City prostitutes and socialites, immigrants and academics, high end drug bosses and street-level dealers, "Floating City" exposes the underground as the city's true engine of social transformation and economic prosperity--revealing a wholly unprecedented vision of New York. A remarkable memoir of sociological investigation.- Subjects: Informal sector (Economics); Sociology, Urban;
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- The tomorrow game : rival teenagers, their race for a gun, and a community united to save them / by Venkatesh, Sudhir,1966-author.;
"A New York Times bestselling author's gripping account of a Chicago community coming together to save a group of teenagers from gun violence"--"At the heart of the story are two teenagers: Marshal Mariot, an introverted video gamer and bike rider, and Frankie Paul, who leaves foster care to direct his cousin's drug business while he's in prison. Frankie devises a plan to attack Marshall and his friends-it is his best chance to showcase his toughness and win respect for his crew. Catching wind of the plan, Marshall and his friends decide they must preemptively go after Frankie's crew to defend their honor. The pressure mounts as both groups of teens race to find a gun and strike first. All the while, the community at large-a cast that includes the teens' families, black market gun dealers, local pastors, a bodega owner and a veteran beat cop-try their best to defuse the conflict and keep the kids alive."--Amazon.- Subjects: Gangs; Juvenile delinquents; Violence;
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- Gang leader for a day: a rogue sociologist takes to the street/ by Venkatesh, Sudhir,1966-;
Accelerated Reader AR- Subjects: Venkatesh, Sudhir, 1966-; Gangs; African Americans;
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- Gang leader for a day : a rogue sociologist takes to the streets / by Venkatesh, Sudhir,1966-;
"How does it feel to be black and poor?" -- First days on Federal Street -- Someone to watch over me -- Gang leader for a day -- Ms. Bailey's neighborhood -- The hustler and the hustled -- Black and blue -- The stay-together gang.The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside captured the world's attention when it was first described in Freakonomics. This is the full story of how Venkatesh managed to gain entrée into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment. When first-year grad student Venkatesh walked into one of Chicago's most notorious housing projects, he was looking for people to take a survey on urban poverty. He never imagined that he would befriend a gang leader and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under his protection. He got to know the neighborhood dealers, crackheads, squatters, prostitutes, pimps, activists, cops, organizers, and officials. From his position of unprecedented access, he observed the gang as they operated their crack-selling business and rose or fell within the ranks of the gang's complex organizational structure.--From publisher description.Accelerated Reader AR- Subjects: Autobiographies.; Venkatesh, Sudhir, 1966-; Gangs; African Americans;
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