The Stay Together Gang Summary

In the last chapter titled “The Stay Together Gang”, J.T. becomes promoted to the highest ranks of the Black Kings which he then invites Venkatesh to tag along to these high-level meetings. At this point, Robert Taylor is being threatened to be demolished and this would make Black Kings and tenants anxious because everyone would have to relocate. Also, in 1996, Venkatesh would be offered a fellowship position at Harvard, soon making him need to leave Chicago. As time went by, J.T. and Venkatesh met less and less and in the year 1998, most of the Robert Taylor buildings would be demolished. As their encounters were coming to an end, J.T. offers Venkatesh names of gang members in Newark and in New York, to enable Venkatesh to pursue his research elsewhere since his dissertation had long ago been finished which was written on the ways that people living in poverty made a living to get them by day-to-day.
Years later, Venkatesh explains that J.T. no longer was a gang member and that he managed business which one of them had failed. He also explains that when he visits the city of Chicago, he would see him from time to time and that if it weren’t for

Firstly, when collecting his data, Venkatesh did not keep the names of his interviewees anonymous because he explains that he gave this information to J.T. and Ms. Bailey. There is also the ethical principle of respect for the law. When witnessing countless accounts of violence and being caught in a drive-by shooting where an individual was shot, he did not report any of it to the police. It is also unlikely that within all the years that Venkatesh spent in Robert Taylor, he only witnessed or overheard threats to the welfare of others the times he mentions in the book therefore adding to the accounts he did not report to police. Venkatesh also makes his findings on the Black Kings seem acceptable and less horrifying because of his close relationship with