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The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War

The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War

Umemoto, Karen

Hardcover

General SociologyRegional: WestTrue Crime

ISBN10: 0801443725
ISBN13: 9780801443725
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: May 10 2006
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This ethnography of a gang war in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Oakwood, just blocks from the famed Venice Beach boardwalk, provides a rare eyewitness account of the urban violence pervasive in the recent history of the United States. With seventeen people killed and more than fifty injured, the hostilities over ten months in 1993 and 1994 marked the peak of gang violence in the history of Los Angeles, a city once labeled the gang capital of the nation. The conflict began as a quarrel among individuals, some of whom had gang affiliations. Over time, the feud engulfed families and soon grew into a sustained clash between African American and Latino gangs. Eventually, victims fell who were not members of opposing gangs, but who fit certain racial and gender profiles. The conflict began to take on the attributes of what one local newspaper sensationalized as a race war.

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