Truth and Consequences March 4, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Education, Entertainment, Gangs and Gang Ethnography.trackback
Pasty white valley girl makes up a story about her being part Indian, being a foster child, raised in a black family, and running dope for the Bloods in the basin.
Why was the book’s publisher so gullible as not to do any basic fact-checking? My guess is that they ran blindly with this supposedly non-fiction book because they were in tune with the author’s socio-political bias.
Now that the book has been pulled, finding a copy and reading it is going to be a tall order. But if it is anything like the books written by formal academic gang ethnographers, such as Scott Decker of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, or Mark Fleisher of the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, then it tells the “truth” (even though in the case of LaC, it’s literally not the truth) about gang activity, but it casts those truths in light of white racism, that which we are made to think is the fundamental perfidy that leads to black and Hispanic gang activity. Therefore, this is probably why the PC book reviewer crowd fawned over LaC.
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