University Press of America
Pages: 100
Trim: 6⅜ x 9½
978-0-7618-5522-4 • Hardback • November 2011 • $80.00 • (£62.00)
978-0-7618-5523-1 • eBook • September 2011 • $76.00 • (£58.00)
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.
Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 Seeding, Watering and Harvesting
Chapter 4 American Hypocrisy
Chapter 5 Classism, Politics and Urbanity
Chapter 6 Mis-Education is the Real Conspiracy
Part 7 Putting Us through Changes: Civil Rights, Black Power and the BlackPanther Party for Self Defense
Chapter 8 To Overcome or Be Over-run: Civil Rights Movement and Black Power
Chapter 9 The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense: Born with an Immediate Expiration Date
Chapter 10 Terminating the Party the Old Fashion Way
Part 11 The Farmer's Harvest: Fertile Land for African-American Gangsterism
Chapter 12 Numerical Illusions and Hood Dynamics for Boyz to Become Men
Chapter 13 Brief History of Black Gangster Formations
Chapter 14 The Emergent Gangsterism Perspective: Manhood Is Essential as the Air I Breathe
Chapter 15 Looking Through the Rear View Mirror
Part 16 Gangs By Any Other Name: Omega Fraternalism and Hoover Gangsterism
Chapter 17 What Chapter You Claiming Brother?: What Chapter you Claiming Homie
Part 18 One in the Chamber: Ready-Set, Aim, Now Squeeze
Chapter 19 If Any Man Be Redeemed Let Him Proclaim It
Chapter 20 WD 40 and Ketchup
Chapter 21 After Thoughts
Part 22 References
Part 23 Index