Columbia’s Gang Scholar Lives on the Edge

[theworldismine13]

Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia?s Gang Scholar, Lives on the Edge - NYTimes.com

His response
Venkatesh Responds to the NYT | Bwog

I remember him from freakinomics but I didn't know he had written books

 

[Handsback]

I read Gang Leader for a Day. Followed d boys around the Robert Taylor projects in the late eighties and early nineties. Interesting economic and social look at the environment. It's a good read but there was criticism, that I somewhat agree with, that it missed something. There was very little in the way of full explaination of how people ended up in the projects, Great Migration, racism, that kind of deal. He's a good economist, an ok writer, but doesn't seem to understand anything of Black history.

It's probably cheap on Amazon. I'd say check it out.

 

[theworldismine13]

I read Gang Leader for a Day. Followed d boys around the Robert Taylor projects in the late eighties and early nineties. Interesting economic and social look at the environment. It's a good read but there was criticism, that I somewhat agree with, that it missed something. There was very little in the way of full explaination of how people ended up in the projects, Great Migration, racism, that kind of deal. He's a good economist, an ok writer, but doesn't seem to understand anything of Black history.

It's probably cheap on Amazon. I'd say check it out.

I'll have to check it out, I think it might be good that he just sticks to numbers tho, it's not a complete picture but its good or interesting to have a third party perspective

 

[Slaimon Khan Shah]

People in the projects need to avoid doing drugs and drinking alcohol and peer pressuring others into the same sinfull activity.