Sudhir Venkatesh: Gang Leader For a Day

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Partner:: Cody's Books
Location:: Cody's Books
Berkeley, CA
Event Date:: 01.24.08
Speaker:: Sudhir Venkatesh
Tags:: gangs; gangster rap; investigative journalism; social commentary; chicago; poverty; urban

Summary: Sudhir Venkatesh became Gang Leader for a Day. First introduced in Freakonomics, here is the full story of Sudhir Venkatesh, the sociology grad student who infiltrated one of Chicago's most notorious gangs, studying a crack-dealing gang from the insider. Subtitled A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets, Venkatesh's book describes how he managed to gain entree into the gang, what he learned, and how his method revolutionized the academic establishment.

Initially looking for people within a notorious housing project to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty, Venkatesh never imagined that as a result of that graduate assignment he would befriend a gang leader and spend the better part of a decade inside the projects under JT's protection, documenting what he saw there. His report is a brazen, page-turning, and fundamentally honest view into the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, often corrupt struggle to survive in what is tantamount to an urban war zone. And it's also the story of a complicated friendship between Sudhir and JT - two young and ambitious men a universe apart - Cody's Books

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Sudhir Venkatesh

Sudhir Venkatesh's research is rooted in ethnographic investigation of urban neighborhoods in the United States (New York, Chicago) and Paris, France. His most recent book, Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (Harvard University Press, 2006), an ethnographic study of illegal economies in Chicago, received the C. Wright Mills Award (2007) and a Best Book Award from Slate.com (2006). His first book, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (2000), explored the social organization, moral universe, and history of a Chicago housing development, The Robert Taylor Homes. His forthcoming book, Gang Leader for a Day, is a reported memoir (Penguin Press, 2008). He is also the co-editor of Youth, Globalization and the Law (Stanford University Press 2006) and Director of the Youth and Globalization Collaborative Research Network at the Social Science Research Council. He is currently completing a long-term project on sex work in New York and Chicago with the economist Steven Levitt.

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01.: Cody's Introduction

00 min 37 sec

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02.: Venkatesh Opening

00 min 27 sec

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03.: Meeting the Black Kings

02 min 32 sec

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04.: Introducing J.T.

03 min 05 sec

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05.: Reading Excerpt: First Days on Federal Street

07 min 05 sec

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06.: J.T. the Community Man

03 min 01 sec

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07.: Reading Excerpt: J.T. & C-Note

06 min 24 sec

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08.: Creating Street Truces

02 min 20 sec

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09.: J.T.'s Fate

04 min 19 sec

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10.: Q & A

00 min 18 sec

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11.: Q1: Rival Gang Conflicts

02 min 22 sec

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12.: Q2: Robert Taylor Projects

04 min 09 sec

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13.: Q3: Race/Class Differences

05 min 12 sec

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14.: Q4: Protection & Police Relations

02 min 54 sec

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15.: Q5: Children's Education

03 min 31 sec

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16.: Q6: Future of Gangs

01 min 34 sec

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17.: Q7: J.T.'s Education

01 min 49 sec

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18.: Q8: Socioeconomic Hindrances

02 min 16 sec

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Profile of A Gang Leader

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A Slice of Gang Life

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Child Gang Members

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