Book Summary Of A Gang Leader For A Day

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rouge Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh is the ideologies rooted in the African American community. The ideal facts cannot be denied here. The idea of being black and poor is not a simple answer of, very bad, somewhat bad, neither, somewhat good or very good. Being black and poor is a lifestyle. Being black and poor is a community. This book will give you understanding how structural racism among blacks is installed throughout history. The system is created to make sure the subject matter, blacks, in this case are subjected to fail. The crack epidemic in a Chicago neighborhood was only the beginning. Since the first day of this course the terms, drugs and crime has been introduced as not only an

JT is one of the leader of the Black Kings, who later Sudhir befriend. JT suggested to Sudhir the only way he would know what it is like to be black and poor is to actually experience it. “You need to understand how young people live on the streets,” JT states (21). Sudhir took JT up on his offer and end up conducting research on JT and his gang for many years. Sudhir was under JT protection detail and got to know the ins and out of the gang operation. The relationship was complicated, but Sudhir was willing to work hard to understand the black

There has been many instances where the police, or emergency medical services were needed but they would never come to the Robert Taylor neighborhood. Unlike if Sudhir called either one of them to his neighborhood they would come right away. The concept here is they wanted them to kill each other off through black on black crime. Law enforcement did not care about the safety of the residents living in this community. The residents living in Robert Taylor was not a major concern unless it was a drug bust. That is why the Black Kings were very important to the neighborhood. They applied the safety and medical attention the law did not. It was JT’s duty to make sure everyone was taken care