2008 - ALLA Prize for Best Book on Latina/o Anthropology The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high percentage of resident families with a history of persistent poverty, gang involvement, and crime. In some families, members of three generations have belonged to gangs. Many other Pico Gardens families, however, have managed to avoid the cycle of gang involvement. In this work, Vigil adds to the tradition of poverty research and elaborates on the association of family dynamics and gang membership. ...
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2008 - ALLA Prize for Best Book on Latina/o Anthropology The Pico Gardens housing development in East Los Angeles has a high percentage of resident families with a history of persistent poverty, gang involvement, and crime. In some families, members of three generations have belonged to gangs. Many other Pico Gardens families, however, have managed to avoid the cycle of gang involvement. In this work, Vigil adds to the tradition of poverty research and elaborates on the association of family dynamics and gang membership. The main objective of his research was to discover what factors make some families more vulnerable to gang membership, and why gang resistance was evidenced in similarly situated non-gang-involved families. Providing rich, in-depth interviews and observations, Vigil examines the wide variations in income and social capital that exist among the ostensibly poor, mostly Mexican American residents. Vigil documents how families connect and interact with social agencies in greater East Los Angeles to help chart the routines and rhythms of the lives of public housing residents. He presents family life histories to augment and provide texture to the quantitative information. By studying life in Pico Gardens, Vigil feels we can better understand how human agency interacts with structural factors to produce the reality that families living in all public housing developments must contend with daily.
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Very good. Ex-library. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 239 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Tables, black & white, Figures. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2007024575 Type of material Book Personal name Vigil, James Diego, 1938-Main title The projects: gang and non-gang families in East Los Angeles / James Diego Vigil; foreword by Thomas S. Weisner. Edition 1st ed. Published/Created Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Description xvi, 239 p. : ill.; 23 cm. ISBN 9780292717305 (cloth: alk. paper) 029271730X (cloth: alk. paper) 9780292717312 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0292717318 (pbk. : alk. paper) LC classification HV6439. U7 L785 2007 Contents Introduction--Rationale and methods--A history of the Cuatro Flats barrio gang--The gang subculture: change and continuity--The Pico Gardens clique--A gang life--Cholas in the world of gangs--Why children either avoid or affiliate with gangs--Families not involved with gangs--A closer look at gang-affiliated families--Gang prevention and intervention strategies over time--Conclusion and recommendations. LC Subjects Gangs--California--Los Angeles. Gang members--Family relationships--California--Los Angeles. Poor families--California--Los Angeles. Public housing--California--Los Angeles. Pico Gardens (Los Angeles, Calif. )--Social conditions. Los Angeles (Calif. )--Social conditions. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-225) and index. Dewey class no. 364.106/60979494 Geographic area code n-us-ca National bib no. GBA772640 National bib agency no. 013888352 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn144570953 (OCoLC)144570953
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