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The stickup kids: race, drugs, violence, and the American dream

Randol Contreras
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Preface (page xv)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART ONE: BECOMING STICKUP KIDS (page 33)
  • 1. The Rise of the South Bronx and Crack (page 35)
  • 2. Crack Days: Getting Paid (page 56)
  • 3. Rikers Island: Normalizing Violence (page 72)
  • 4. The New York Boys: Tail Enders of the Crack Era (page 87)
  • 5. Crack is Dead (page 105)
  • PART TWO: DOING THE STICKUP (page 115)
  • 6. The Girl (page 117)
  • 7. Getting the Shit (page 136)
  • 8. Drug Robbery Torture (page 151)
  • 9. Splitting the Profits (page 176)
  • 10. Living the Dream: Life after a Drug Robbery (page 191)
  • PART THREE: TODO TIENE SU FINAL (page 203)
  • 11. Fallen Stars (page 205)
  • Conclusion (page 235)
  • Notes (page 243)
  • Index (page 267)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CS 43.5 (2014): 670-671 http://www.jstor.org/stable/43185601
SF 29.4 (2014): 1024-1026 http://www.jstor.org/stable/43654163
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Published: c2013
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520953574 (ebook)
  • 9780520273382 (paper)
  • 9780520273375 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Race
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