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- Estado
- Release Year
- 1999
- Book Title
- Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings
- ISBN
- 9780691001418
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691001413
ISBN-13
9780691001418
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1134120
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Publication Name
Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings : Youth Gangs in Postwar New York
Language
English
Subject
United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Criminology
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
98-033530
Reviews
"[Schneider's] study of Manhattan youth gangs in the years after World War II blends academic disciplines with the author's recollections of the events he traces.Fascinating history." -- Booklist, "Drawing on countless sources meticulously noted, [Schneider] offers reasons for the emergence of gangs, shows us their particular culture, assesses intervention programs, and traces their decline in the 1960s and resurgence in the 1970s. Throughout, he augments his scholarly research with excerpts from interviews with former gang members."-- Library Journal, "A comprehensive and tantalizing picture of the street gang culture that was part of the New York City mythology from the '40s to the '70s. [Schneider] knows his way around the streets and does a particularly good job of making sense of the drug plague that ended the original postwar gang culture. . . . Schneider's understanding (if not affection) for the gang style informs the work throughout. Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings is a sharp book about a peculiar moment in the New York life--one that seems strangely antiquated as we approach the new millennium." --Martin Jackson, Village Voice, "Schneider succeeds in offering an insightful analysis of youth gangs, linking the methods of social history with those of sociology, anthropology, and criminology. This book is well worth the attention of a wide readership." --David Wolcott, "Drawing on an extraordinary range of primary and secondary materials, Eric Schneider has produced an incisive and compelling history of youth gangs in New York City." --Ellen Dwyer, Indiana University, "A comprehensive and tantalizing picture of the street gang culture that was part of the New York City mythology from the '40s to the '70s. [Schneider] knows his way around the streets and does a particularly good job of making sense of the drug plague that ended the original postwar gang culture. . . . Schneider's understanding (if not affection) for the gang style informs the work throughout. Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings is a sharp book about a peculiar moment in the New York life--one that seems strangely antiquated as we approach the new millennium."-- Martin Jackson, Village Voice, "In this marvelous and fascinating book, Eric Schneider tells the real West Side Story. With a wide array of sources-including interviews with former gang members-he locates the post-war history of New York City's gangs in the multiple transformations of the city's social ecology, economy, ethnic and race relations, institutions, and culture." --Michael B. Katz, University of Pennsylvania, Drawing on countless sources meticulously noted, [Schneider] offers reasons for the emergence of gangs, shows us their particular culture, assesses intervention programs, and traces their decline in the 1960s and resurgence in the 1970s. Throughout, he augments his scholarly research with excerpts from interviews with former gang members., "This is the kind of book we need to regain our sanity about young people and violence." --Carl Nightingale, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "A very strong analysis of gangs in postwar New York City. Schneider's historical approach to understanding gang activities is innovative.... This is a well-written and interesting book that should appeal to a wide audience." --Ruth Horowitz, New York University, "Drawing on countless sources meticulously noted, [Schneider] offers reasons for the emergence of gangs, shows us their particular culture, assesses intervention programs, and traces their decline in the 1960s and resurgence in the 1970s. Throughout, he augments his scholarly research with excerpts from interviews with former gang members." -- Library Journal, "[Schneider's] study of Manhattan youth gangs in the years after World War II blends academic disciplines with the authors recollections of the events he traces.Fascinating history."-- Booklist, Superb. This is a marvelous piece of work: beautifully written, nicely organized, thoroughly researched, consistently insightful., "An original and imaginative work both of historical significance and narrative power. It is thoroughly grounded in the scholarly literature. . . . At the same time, it is so well written and contains so many remarkable stories that it will be accessible to general readers as well." --Margaret Marsh, Rutgers University, A comprehensive and tantalizing picture of the street gang culture that was part of the New York City mythology from the '40s to the '70s. [Schneider] knows his way around the streets and does a particularly good job of making sense of the drug plague that ended the original postwar gang culture. . . . Schneider's understanding (if not affection) for the gang style informs the work throughout. Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings is a sharp book about a peculiar moment in the New York life--one that seems strangely antiquated as we approach the new millennium. ---Martin Jackson, Village Voice, "Superb. This is a marvelous piece of work: beautifully written, nicely organized, thoroughly researched, consistently insightful."-- New York History, [Schneider's] study of Manhattan youth gangs in the years after World War II blends academic disciplines with the author's recollections of the events he traces.Fascinating history., "A comprehensive and tantalizing picture of the street gang culture that was part of the New York City mythology from the '40s to the '70s. [Schneider] knows his way around the streets and does a particularly good job of making sense of the drug plague that ended the original postwar gang culture. . . . Schneider's understanding (if not affection) for the gang style informs the work throughout. Vampires, Dragons, and Egyptian Kings is a sharp book about a peculiar moment in the New York life--one that seems strangely antiquated as we approach the new millennium." ---Martin Jackson, Village Voice, "Superb. This is a marvelous piece of work: beautifully written, nicely organized, thoroughly researched, consistently insightful." -- New York History
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
364.106
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Crossing 96th Street Introduction: The Capeman and the Vampires 3 Ch. 1 Remaking New York 27 Ch. 2 Discovering Gangs: The Role of Race in the 1940s 51 Ch. 3 Defending Place: Ethnicity and Territory 78 Ch. 4 Becoming Men: The Use of the Streets in Defining Masculinity 106 Ch. 5 Making a Gang Culture: Form, Style, and Ritual in the Gang World 137 Ch. 6 Leaving the Gang: Pathways into Adulthood 164 Ch. 7 Intervening in Gangs: The Problems and Possibilities of Social Work 188 Ch. 8 Drugs, Politics, and Gangs, 1960-1975 217 Conclusion: Comparing Gangs: Contemporary Gangs in Historical Perspective 246 Notes 263 Index 319
Synopsis
They called themselves "Vampires," "Dragons," and "Egyptian Kings." They were divided by race, ethnicity, and neighborhood boundaries, but united by common styles, slang, and codes of honor. They fought--and sometimes killed--to protect and expand their territories. In postwar New York, youth gangs were a colorful and controversial part of the urban landscape, made famous by West Side Story and infamous by the media. This is the first historical study to explore fully the culture of these gangs. Eric Schneider takes us into a world of switchblades and slums, zoot suits and bebop music to explain why youth gangs emerged, how they evolved, and why young men found membership and the violence it involved so attractive. Schneider begins by describing how postwar urban renewal, slum clearances, and ethnic migration pitted African-American, Puerto Rican, and Euro-American youths against each other in battles to dominate changing neighborhoods. But he argues that young men ultimately joined gangs less because of ethnicity than because membership and gang violence offered rare opportunities for adolescents alienated from school, work, or the family to win prestige, power, adulation from girls, and a masculine identity. In the course of the book, Schneider paints a rich and detailed portrait of everyday life in gangs, drawing on personal interviews with former members to re-create for us their language, music, clothing, and social mores. We learn what it meant to be a "down bopper" or a "jive stud," to "fish" with a beautiful "deb" to the sounds of the Jesters, and to wear gang sweaters, wildly colored zoot suits, or the "Ivy League look." He outlines the unwritten rules of gang behavior, the paths members followed to adulthood, and the effects of gang intervention programs, while also providing detailed analyses of such notorious gang-related crimes as the murders committed by the "Capeman," Salvador Agron. Schneider focuses on the years from 1940 to 1975, but takes us up to the present in his conclusion, showing how youth gangs are no longer social organizations but economic units tied to the underground economy. Written with a profound understanding of adolescent culture and the street life of New York, this is a powerful work of history and a compelling story for a general audience.
LC Classification Number
HV6439.U7N467 1999
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