8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters - Hardcover

Sikes, Gini

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9780385474313: 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters

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ISBN 10: 0385474318 ISBN 13: 9780385474313

Verlag: Anchor Books, 1997

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A veteran journalist spends a year following girl gangs--white, black, and Latino--in South Central Los Angeles and elsewhere, tracing the similarities and differences between female and male gangs and the desperation of life on the street. Tour.

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the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. Carrying razor blades in their mouths and guns in their jackets for defense, they initiate drive-by shootings, carry out car jackings, stomp outsiders who stumble onto or dare to enter the neighborhood, viciously retaliate against other gangs and ferociously guard their home turf.

But Sikes also captures the differences that distinguish girl gangs-abortion, teen pregnancy and teen motherhood, endless beatings and the humiliation of being forced to have sex with a lineup of male gangbangers during initiation, haphazardly raising kids in a household of drugs and guns with a part-time boyfriend off gangbanging himself. Veteran journalist Gini Sikes spends a year in the ghettos following the lives of several key gang members in South Central Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee. In 8 Ball Chicks, we discover the fear

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