Angels Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and the Rhetorics of Everyday

by Ralph Cintron

Book Overview

As issues of power and social order loom large in Angelstown, Ralph Cintron shows how eruptions on the margins of the community are emblematic of a deeper disorder. In their language and images, the members of a Latino community in a midsized American city create self-respect under conditions of disrepect. Cintron's innovative ethnography offers a beautiful portrait of a struggling Mexican-American community and shows how people (including ethnographers)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080704637X
• ISBN13: 9780807046371
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 9.3"