Mean streets
Subtitle: Chicago youths and the everyday struggle for empowerment in the multiracial city, 1908-1969
By: Andrew Diamond.
Series: American crossroads -- 27
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780520257238; 9780520257474
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Gangs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Immigrants -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Social integration -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 20th century; Group identity -- Illinois -- Chicago
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The generation of 1919; title: Between school and work in the interwar years; title: Hoodlums and Zoot Suiters : fear, youth, and militancy during wartime; title: Angry young men : race, class, and masculinity in the postwar years; title: Teenage terrorism, fighting gangs, and collective action in the era of civil rights; title: Youth and power.