Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters
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Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. Unfortunately, the voice of the ghetto was politically tempered, silenced, ignored, and at times rebuked by a black leadership that seemed to be preoccupied with a middle-class integrationist agenda. As a result, a once strong sense of universal brotherhood became fractured and the mood of the oppressed shifted to confusion only to be tempered by relentless frustration, out of which emerged black gangs.
Steven R. Cureton is associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and the author of Hoover Crips: When Cripin' Becomes a Way of Life (2008). His research appears in the Journal of Gang Research, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Criminal Justice, African-American Research Perspectives, Huff's Gangs in America III, and Markowitz and Brown's The System in Black and White: Exploring the Connections between Race, Crime and Justice.