Gangs in Garden City

1st Edition

How Immigration, Segregation, and Youth Violence are Changing America's Suburbs

Sarah Garland
eISBN-13: 9780786744695

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For the past five years, journalist Sarah Garland has followed the lives of current and former gang members living in Hempstead on the border of Garden City, Long Island. Affiliated with Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street, their troubling personal stories expose the cruel realities of segregation, racial income gaps, and poverty that lie hidden behind suburban white picket fences.<br><br> As Garland travels from Los Angeles to El Salvador and back to the East Coast, she reveals a disturbing cycle of poverty in which families, fleeing from troubled Central American cities, move into America's suburban backyards, only to find the pattern of violence repeating itself. Brilliantly reported and sensitively told, Gangs in Garden City draws back the veil on a hidden, troubling world.

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ISBNs 9781568584041, 1568584040, 9780786744695, 9781568584041, 1568586159, 9781568586151
Language English
Edition 1st