Angels Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and the Rhetorics of Everyday

As issues of power and social order loom large in Angelstown, Ralph Cintron shows how eruptions on the margins of the community are emblematic of a deeper disorder. In their language and images, the members of a Latino community in a midsized American city create self-respect under conditions of disrepect. Cintron's innovative ethnography offers a beautiful portrait of a struggling Mexican-American community and shows how people (including ethnographers) make sense of their lives through cultural forms.

• | Author: Ralph Cintron
• | Publisher: Beacon Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 1998
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 080704637X
• | ISBN-13: 9780807046371