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008			130530s2013 nyu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9781479818129
020			_a1479818127
020			_z9781479850099 (hardback)
020			_z9781479878123 (paper)
020			_z1479850098
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aHV6439.U7 _bL725 2013
082	0	0	_a261.8/3310660979494 _223
100	1		_aFlores, Edward.
245	1	0	_aGod's gangs _h[electronic resource] : _bbarrio ministry, masculinity, and gang recovery / _cEdward Orozco Flores.
260			_aNew York : _bNew York University Press, _c[2013] _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (pages cm)
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"Los Angeles is the epicenter of the American gang problem. Rituals and customs from Los Angeles' eastside gangs, including hand signals, graffiti, and clothing styles, have spread to small towns and big cities alike. Many see the problem with gangs as related to urban marginality--for a Latino immigrant population struggling with poverty and social integration, gangs offer a close-knit community. Yet, as Edward Orozco Flores argues in God's Gangs, gang members can be successfully redirected out of gangs through efforts that change the context in which they find themselves, as well as their notions of what it means to be a man. Flores here illuminates how Latino men recover from gang life through involvement in urban, faith-based organizations. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with Homeboy Industries, a Jesuit-founded non-profit that is one of the largest gang intervention programs in the country, and with Victory Outreach, a Pentecostal ministry with over 600 chapters, Flores demonstrates that organizations such as these facilitate recovery from gang life by enabling gang members to reinvent themselves as family men and as members of their community. The book offers a window into the process of redefining masculinity. As Flores convincingly shows, gang members are not trapped in a cycle of poverty and marginality. With the help of urban ministries, such men construct a reformed barrio masculinity to distance themselves from gang life. Edward Orozco Flores is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago. "-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aRELIGION / General. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aHispanic American men _zCalifornia _zLos Angeles _xSocial conditions.
650		0	_aChurch and social problems _zCalifornia _zLos Angeles.
650		0	_aChurch work with Hispanic Americans _zCalifornia _zLos Angeles.
650		0	_aEx-gang members _xServices for _zCalifornia _zLos Angeles.
650		0	_aEx-gang members _xRehabilitation _zCalifornia _zLos Angeles.
650		0	_aHispanic American gangs _zCalifornia _zLos Angeles.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781479818129/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c34246 _d34246