Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War
- ISBN-10
- 076185522X
- ISBN-13
- 9780761855224
- Category
- African American fraternal organizations
- Pages
- 97
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Press of America
- Author
- Steven R. Cureton
Description
Examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. The voice of the ghetto was silenced by a black leadership preoccupied with a middle-class integrationist agenda, leading to confusion, frustration, and the emergence of black gangs.
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