American project : the rise and fall of a modern ghetto / Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh.

Main entry:

Venkatesh, Sudhir, 1966-

Title & Author:

American project : the rise and fall of a modern ghetto / Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2000.

Description:

xvi, 332 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A place to call home -- Doing the Hustle -- "What's it like to be in Hell?" -- Tenants face off with the gang -- Street-gang diplomacy -- The beginning of the end of a modern ghetto.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, American Project is the story of daily life in an American public housing complex. Venkatesh draws on his relationships with tenants, gang members, police officers, and local organizations to offer an intimate portrait of an inner-city community that journalists and the public have viewed only from a distance. Challenging the conventional notion of public housing as a failure, this startling book recreates tenants' thirty-year effort to build a safe and secure neighborhood: their political battles for services from an indifferent city bureaucracy, their daily confrontation with entrenched poverty, their painful decisions about whether to work with or against the street gangs whose drug dealing both sustained and imperiled their lives." "American Project explores the fundamental question of what makes a community viable. In his chronicle of tenants' political and personal struggles to create a decent place to live, Venkatesh brings us to the heart of the matter."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0674003217 (alk. paper)
9780674003217 (alk. paper)
0674008308
9780674008304

Subject:

Robert Taylor Homes.
Public housing Illinois Chicago.
African Americans Housing Illinois Chicago.
Low-income housing Illinois Chicago.
Crime in public housing Illinois Chicago.
Inner cities Illinois Chicago.
Logement social Illinois Chicago.
Noirs américains Logement Illinois Chicago.
Pauvres Logement Illinois Chicago.
Criminalité dans les logements sociaux Illinois Chicago.
African Americans Housing
Crime in public housing
Inner cities
Low-income housing
Public housing
Bande
Kriminalität
Schwarze
Segregation
Sozialer Brennpunkt
Stadtviertel
Wohngebiet
Soziale Situation
Sozialer Wohnungsbau
Huisvesting.
Sociale achterstand.
Armoede.
Getto's.
Benden (criminaliteit)
Zwarten.
POBREZA CHICAGO (Ill.)
VIOLÊNCIA CHICAGO (Ill.)
AFRO-DESCENDENTES (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS) CHICAGO (IL)
NEGROS (ASPECTOS SOCIAIS) CHICAGO (IL)
Illinois Chicago
Chicago, Ill.
Schwärze

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214453
Call No.: HD7288.78.U52 C4 2000
Status: Available

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