Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War

by Steven R. Cureton

Overview

Black Vanguards and Black Gangsters: From Seeds of Discontent to a Declaration of War examines the extent to which black gangsterism is a product of civil rights gains, community transition, black flight, social activism, and failed grassroots social movement groups. Unfortunately, the voice of the ghetto was politically tempered, silenced, ignored, and at times rebuked by a black leadership that seemed to be preoccupied with a middle-class integrationist agenda. As a result, a once strong sense of universal brotherhood became fractured and the mood of the oppressed shifted to confusion only to be tempered by relentless frustration, out of which emerged black gangs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761855224
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/14/2011
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Steven R. Cureton is associate professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and the author of Hoover Crips: When Cripin' Becomes a Way of Life (2008). His research appears in the Journal of Gang Research, Journal of Black Studies, Journal of Criminal Justice, African-American Research Perspectives, Huff's Gangs in America III, and Markowitz and Brown's The System in Black and White: Exploring the Connections between Race, Crime and Justice.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Preface
Part 2 Acknowledgments
Part 3 Seeding, Watering and Harvesting
Chapter 4 American Hypocrisy
Chapter 5 Classism, Politics and Urbanity
Chapter 6 Mis-Education is the Real Conspiracy
Part 7 Putting Us through Changes: Civil Rights, Black Power and the BlackPanther Party for Self Defense
Chapter 8 To Overcome or Be Over-run: Civil Rights Movement and Black Power
Chapter 9 The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense: Born with an Immediate Expiration Date
Chapter 10 Terminating the Party the Old Fashion Way
Part 11 The Farmer's Harvest: Fertile Land for African-American Gangsterism
Chapter 12 Numerical Illusions and Hood Dynamics for Boyz to Become Men
Chapter 13 Brief History of Black Gangster Formations
Chapter 14 The Emergent Gangsterism Perspective: Manhood Is Essential as the Air I Breathe
Chapter 15 Looking Through the Rear View Mirror
Part 16 Gangs By Any Other Name: Omega Fraternalism and Hoover Gangsterism
Chapter 17 What Chapter You Claiming Brother?: What Chapter you Claiming Homie
Part 18 One in the Chamber: Ready-Set, Aim, Now Squeeze
Chapter 19 If Any Man Be Redeemed Let Him Proclaim It
Chapter 20 WD 40 and Ketchup
Chapter 21 After Thoughts
Part 22 References
Part 23 Index