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Historian Schneider, author of In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s (New York Univ., 1992), jumps forward in time and down the coast to examine the phenomenon of New York City youth gangs after World War II. Drawing on countless sources, meticulously noted, he offers reasons for the emergence of gangs, shows us their particular culture, assesses intervention programs, and traces their decline in the 1960s and resurgence in the 1970s. Throughout, he augments his scholarly research with excerpts from interviews with former gang members (including authors Claude Brown and Piri Thomas and 1950s and 1960s teen singing idol Dion DiMucci) and street workersAsocial workers assigned to work with gangmembers. Schneider's chapter comparing gangs of yesterday and today seems a bit cursory, but modern gangs are not his focus here, and his observations are still interesting. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.
Jim Burns, Ottumwa, P.L., IA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Schneider, an assistant dean at the University of Pennsylvania, is a historian, but he also grew up in working-class Manhattan. His study of Manhattan's youth gangs in the years after World War II blends academic disciplines with the author's recollections of the events he traces. Schneider examines social factors (economic change, migration of African Americans and Puerto Ricans into the city, and urban renewal and slum clearance), outlines statistics, and offers case studies of Washington Heights and East Harlem. He then explores such themes as "the centrality of masculinity in understanding gangs" and the gang culture that brought together gang members even as they fought each other; the various paths members took as they left their gangs and assumed the responsibilities of adulthood; and the effect of New York's gang intervention programs. Closing chapters consider the decline of New York gangs in the mid-1960s and compare the largely economic role of contemporary New York gangs with the social roles they played in the postwar period. Fascinating history. Mary Carroll
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Historian Schneider, author of In the Web of Class: Delinquents and Reformers in Boston, 1810s-1930s (New York Univ., 1992), jumps forward in time and down the coast to examine the phenomenon of New York City youth gangs after World War II. Drawing on countless sources, meticulously noted, he offers reasons for the emergence of gangs, shows us their particular culture, assesses intervention programs, and traces their decline in the 1960s and resurgence in the 1970s. Throughout, he augments his scholarly research with excerpts from interviews with former gang members (including authors Claude Brown and Piri Thomas and 1950s and 1960s teen singing idol Dion DiMucci) and street workersAsocial workers assigned to work with gangmembers. Schneider's chapter comparing gangs of yesterday and today seems a bit cursory, but modern gangs are not his focus here, and his observations are still interesting. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.
Jim Burns, Ottumwa, P.L., IA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
Schneider, an assistant dean at the University of Pennsylvania, is a historian, but he also grew up in working-class Manhattan. His study of Manhattan's youth gangs in the years after World War II blends academic disciplines with the author's recollections of the events he traces. Schneider examines social factors (economic change, migration of African Americans and Puerto Ricans into the city, and urban renewal and slum clearance), outlines statistics, and offers case studies of Washington Heights and East Harlem. He then explores such themes as "the centrality of masculinity in understanding gangs" and the gang culture that brought together gang members even as they fought each other; the various paths members took as they left their gangs and assumed the responsibilities of adulthood; and the effect of New York's gang intervention programs. Closing chapters consider the decline of New York gangs in the mid-1960s and compare the largely economic role of contemporary New York gangs with the social roles they played in the postwar period. Fascinating history. Mary Carroll
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