In this revelatory book, Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighbourhood in Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous and remarkable ways in which a community survives.
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Explores the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which the residents of Maquis Park, a poor African-American neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, struggle to survive.
Sudhir Venkatesh takes us into Maquis Park, a poor black neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, to explore the desperate, dangerous, and remarkable ways in which a community survives. We find there an entire world of unregulated, unreported, and untaxed work, a system of living of…
"Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, American Project is the story of daily life in an American public housing complex. Venkatesh draws on his relationships with tenants, gang members, police officers, and local organizations to offer an intim…
"Based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in Chicago's Robert Taylor Homes, American Project is the story of daily life in an American public housing complex. Venkatesh draws on his relationships with tenants, gang members, police officers, and local organizations to offer an intim…