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Floating City: Hustlers, Strivers, Dealers, Call Girls and Other Lives in Illicit New York by Sudhir Venkatesh
Category: Philosophy and Religion
After his insider's study of Chicago crack gangs electrified the academy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade immersed in New York's underbelly, observing the call girls, drug dealers, prostitutes and other strivers that make up this booming underground economy. Amidst the tr ...Show more
Floating CityHustlers, Strivers, Dealers, Call Girls and Other Lives in Illicit New York by Sudhir Venkatesh
Category: Culture
After his insider's study of Chicago crack gangs electrified the academy, Columbia University sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh spent a decade immersed in New York's underbelly, observing the call girls, drug dealers, prostitutes and other strivers that make up this booming underground economy. Amidst the tr ...Show more
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
Category: True Crime
Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in "Freakonomics" (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his time living with the gangs on the Southside of Chicago and answers another question: What's it like to live in hell? In the Robert Taylor Homes projects on Chicago's ...Show more
Gang Leader for a Day : A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line - out of print by Sudhir Venkatesh
Category: History
Sudhir Venkatesh the young sociologist who became famous in Freakonomics (Why do drug dealers still live with their moms?) describes his time living with the gangs on the Southside of Chicago and answers another question- what's it like to live in hell? In the Robert Taylor Homes projects on Chicago's S ...Show more
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