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american history
Author_Andrew J. Diamond
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chicago
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city streets
civil rights
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community
critical race theory
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ethnicity
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latino youth
masculinity
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place
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puerto rican
race
race riots
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Product details
- ISBN 9780520257474
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2009
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Mean Streets" focuses on the streets, parks, schools, and commercial venues of Chicago from the era of the 1919 race riot to the civil rights battles of the 1960s to cast a new light on street gangs and to place youths at the center of the twentieth-century American experience. Andrew J. Diamond breaks new ground by showing that teens and young adults stood at the vanguard of grassroots mobilizations in working-class Chicago, playing key roles in the formation of racial identities as they defended neighborhood boundaries. Drawing from a wide range of sources to capture the experiences of young Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, Italians, Poles, and others in the multiracial city, Diamond argues that Chicago youths gained a sense of themselves in opposition to others.
Andrew J. Diamond is Associate Professor of American History and Civilization at the Universite Charles de Gaulle - Lille 3 in France.
