 | The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War Subjects: Gangs -- California -- Los Angeles; Ethnic conflict -- California -- Los Angeles; Venice (Los Angeles Calif.) -- Race relations; Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations; This ethnography of a gang war in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Oakwood, just blocks from the famed Venice Beach boardwalk, provides a rare eyewitness account of the urban violence pervasive in the recent history of the United States. With seventeen... Karen Umemoto is Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. |
