Crews: Gang Members Talk to Maria Hinojosa

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National Public Radio reporter Maria Hinojosa’s work with “crew” (gang) members of New York City inspired this in-depth collection of interviews. Her direct, nonjudgmental questions evoke poignant, surprising, and sometimes shocking responses from young people torn between violence and struggle for survival in America’s cities. “The contemporary topic, universal themes, accessible writing, and compelling language will fill a void on many libraries’ shelves. These powerful statements may serve as a wake-up call to...

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National Public Radio reporter Maria Hinojosa’s work with “crew” (gang) members of New York City inspired this in-depth collection of interviews. Her direct, nonjudgmental questions evoke poignant, surprising, and sometimes shocking responses from young people torn between violence and struggle for survival in America’s cities. “The contemporary topic, universal themes, accessible writing, and compelling language will fill a void on many libraries’ shelves. These powerful statements may serve as a wake-up call to young adults and all who work with them today.”—School Library Journal

Reporter Maria Hinojosa's work with "crew" members for a National Public Radio feature in 1991 inspired this in-depth collection of interviews. Her direct, nonjudgmental questions evoke poignant, surprising, and sometimes shocking responses from young people caught between violence and the struggle for survival in America's cities. Photos.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
After the 1990 stabbing of a Utah tourist by a NYC gang member, NPR correspondent Hinojosa conducted an ``All Things Considered'' interview with members of a Queens, N.Y., ``crew'' (also called posses or gangs). Building on that report, she explores this world through seven interviews with young Queens gang members. They speak candidly, often with disturbing detachment, about a variety of issues: the sense of family offered by crews, how they view their futures, raising their own children, and misconceptions about posses. Members commit petty crimes, but the crews nonetheless seem like social groups compared to the ``hard core'' gangs of such cities as Los Angeles. Often, however, they come across as caricatures: all talk and no action. Though Hinojosa's own nave views sometimes intrude, her book works best when she gets her subjects to drop their bravado and recount their individual experiences in an increasingly violent society. The resultant portraits powerfully demonstrate how loneliness, hopelessness and low self-esteem affect a growing number of young people. A compelling afterword brings the subjects' lives up to date. Ages 12-up. (Jan.)
The ALAN Review - Judy Stoffel
The word "crews" refers to gangs of teenagers in New York City, mostly of South American or African-American backgrounds. Most of the book consists of interviews with crew members who describe the benefits, obligations, and frustrations associated with membership. National Public Radio reporter Hinojosa comments minimally on what the teens tell her without passing judgment. The perspectives are mostly male, though one chapter is devoted to female crew members. Gang violence is described graphically, so the squeamish should be forewarned. Aspects of gang mentality are clarified through the comments of young people with names like Coki, Shank, Tre, and C-Roy. Examples of their comments are "never let anybody know that you're scared or they think they can control you"; "if you don't got a crew, then you're lost, I guess. `Cause everybody else got a crew." The book would make a starting point for an examination of the nature of family or community.
School Library Journal
Gr 9 UpA provocative and personal look at Latino gang members in New York City. Shank, Coki, Cindy, Tre, Smooth b, and their friends answer the interviewer's questions to reveal lives driven overwhelmingly by some common threads: the need for acceptance, suppressed anger, dysfunctional families, poverty, violence, and drugs. For these teens their ``crews'' or ``posses,'' the street term for gangs, serve as a safe haven, an anchor to reality, and a place in which to feel in control. Hinojosa's open-ended questioning style encourgages young men and women to tell their own stories. Their reflections on childhood, family, school, loneliness, friendships, the street, drugs, sex, death, fights, and the future are moving testaments to the resiliency of the human spirit. The contemporary topic, universal themes, accessible writing, and compelling language will fill a void on many library's shelves. These powerful statements may serve as a wake-up call to young adults and all who work with them today.Gail Richmond, San Diego Unified Schools, CA
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780152002831
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Publication date: 1/28/1995
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 176
  • Age range: 12 - 17 Years
  • Lexile: 690L (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 5.48 (w) x 8.22 (h) x 0.41 (d)

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