8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs Paperback - 1998
by Gini Sikes
Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang-bangers are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. In "8 Ball Chicks", veteran journalist Gini Sikes spends a year in the ghettos following girl gangs in South Central Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee.
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My plane descended into Los Angeles one January morning in 1994, four days after a major earthquake
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Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous as their male counterparts. Carrying razor blades in their mouths and guns in their jackets for defense, they initiate drive-by shootings, carry out car jackings, stomp outsiders who stumble onto or dare to enter the neighborhood, viciously retaliate against other gangs and ferociously guard their home turf.
But Sikes also captures the differences that distinguish girl gangs-abortion, teen pregnancy and teen motherhood, endless beatings and the humiliation of being forced to have sex with a lineup of male gangbangers during initiation, haphazardly raising kids in a household of drugs and guns with a part-time boyfriend off gangbanging himself. Veteran journalist Gini Sikes spends a year in the ghettos following the lives of several key gang members in South Central Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Milwaukee. In "8 Ball Chicks, we discover the fear and desperate desire for respect and status that drive girls into gangs in the first place--and the dreams and ambitions that occasionally help them to escape the catch-22 of their existence.
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- Title 8 Ball Chicks: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangs
- Author Gini Sikes
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date January 20, 1998
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780385474320 / 0385474326
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.8 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 2.03 cm)
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- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Juvenile delinquency - United States, Female juvenile delinquents - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96023949
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.360
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