TY  - BOOK
AU  - Garot,Robert
TI  - Who You Claim: Performing Gang Identity in School and on the Streets 
T2  - Alternative Criminology
SN  - 9780814733141
U1  - 364.10660973 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Gang members
KW  - United States
KW  - Gangs
KW  - Youth
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Garot
KW  - Robert
KW  - account
KW  - being
KW  - carefully
KW  - compelling
KW  - constantly
KW  - coordinated
KW  - demonstrate
KW  - descriptions
KW  - ethnographic
KW  - gang
KW  - gangs
KW  - group
KW  - identity
KW  - institution
KW  - into
KW  - like
KW  - many
KW  - must
KW  - nuanced
KW  - other
KW  - performance
KW  - performed
KW  - presentation
KW  - provides
KW  - researched
KW  - rich
KW  - rules
KW  - stories
KW  - style
KW  - that
KW  - this
KW  - with
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Preface: Emily’s Tale --; 1. Gang Identity as Performance --; I. Alienation in School --; 2. Moral Dramas at School --; 3. The Contradictions of Controlling Student Dress --; II. Performing Gang Identity on the Streets --; 4. Claims --; 5. Affiliations --; 6. Violence and Nonviolence --; 7. Avoiding Retaliation --; 8. Streetwork --; Conclusion --; Appendix: Getting Schooled --; Notes --; References --; Index --; About the Author; restricted access
N2  - 2011 Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Community and Urban Section's Robert E. Park Book AwardThe color of clothing, the width of shoe laces, a pierced ear, certain brands of sneakers, the braiding of hair and many other features have long been seen as indicators of gang involvement. But it’s not just what is worn, it’s how: a hat tilted to the left or right, creases in pants, an ironed shirt not tucked in, baggy pants. For those who live in inner cities with a heavy gang presence, such highly stylized rules are not simply about fashion, but markers of "who you claim," that is, who one affiliates with, and how one wishes to be seen.In this carefully researched ethnographic account, Robert Garot provides rich descriptions and compelling stories to demonstrate that gang identity is a carefully coordinated performance with many nuanced rules of style and presentation, and that gangs, like any other group or institution, must be constantly performed into being. Garot spent four years in and around one inner city alternative school in Southern California, conducting interviews and hanging out with students, teachers, and administrators. He shows that these young people are not simply scary thugs who always have been and always will be violent criminals, but that they constantly modulate ways of talking, walking, dressing, writing graffiti, wearing make-up, and hiding or revealing tattoos as ways to play with markers of identity. They obscure, reveal, and provide contradictory signals on a continuum, moving into, through, and out of gang affiliations as they mature, drop out, or graduate. Who You Claim provides a rare look into young people’s understandings of the meanings and contexts in which the magic of such identity work is made manifest
UR  - https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814733141.001.0001
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