What don’t we know about the realities of gang life? On the next Your Call, we’ll have a conversation with Sudhir Venkatesh, a Columbia University sociologist and author of Gang Leader for a Day. Venkatesh spent almost a decade hanging out with crack-selling gang members and struggling poor residents in one of Chicago’s most notorious public housing projects. How do gang members see themselves as fitting in with society? How do they fit into your community? And what will it take to break the cycle of poverty, drugs, and violence in places like Chicago's Projects? It’s Your Call with Sandip Roy and you.
Guest:
Sudhir Venkatesh
Author of Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Your Call 011708 What don’t we know about gang life?
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