The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity and the American Dream

by James M. O'Kane

Book Overview

Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians, and dismissed as a subject not to be taken too seriously by those researching the mobility patterns of their own ethnic ancestors or current minority newcomers, The Crooked Ladder represents a groundbreaking attempt to describe how some members of ethnic minorities have utilized organized crime as one vehicle of upward mobility, advancing from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076580994X
• ISBN13: 9780765809940
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"