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Angels Town|Cintron, Ralph

Angels Town : Chero Ways, Gang Life, and the Rhetorics of Everyday

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As issues of power and social order loom large in Angelstown, Ralph Cintron shows how eruptions on the margins of the community are emblematic of a deeper disorder. In their language and images, the members of a Latino community in a midsized American city create self-respect under conditions of disrepect. Cintron's innovative ethnography offers a beautiful portrait of a struggling Mexican-American community and shows how people (including ethnographers) make sense of their lives through cultural forms.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • ISBN: 9780807046449
  • Publisher: Beacon Press
  • Imprint: Beacon Press
  • Date: Jan 2001
  • Seller Statement: Sold by Random House WHS

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