Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"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...