Going All City: Struggle and Survival in La's Graffiti Subculture

by Stefano Bloch

Book Overview

"We could have been called a lot of things: brazen vandals, scared kids, threats to social order, self-obsessed egomaniacs, marginalized youth, outsider artists, trend setters, and thrill seekers. But, to me, we were just regular kids growing up hard in America and making the city our own. Being 'writers' gave us something to live for and 'going all city' gave us something to strive for; and for some of my friends it was something to die...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022649358X
• ISBN13: 9780226493589
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"