Ville

Ville

Cops and Kids in Urban America, Updated Edition

  • Autor: Donaldson, Greg; Author, the; Naison, Mark D.
  • Editor: Fordham University Press
  • ISBN: 9780823265671
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780823265695
  • eISBN Epub: 9780823265688
  • Lloc de publicació:  New York , United States
  • Any de publicació: 2015
  • Any de publicació digital: 2015
  • Mes: Juny
  • Idioma: Anglés

In Brownsville’s twenty-one housing projects, the young cops and the teenagers who stand solemnly on the street corners are bitter and familiar enemies. The Ville, as the Brownsville–East New York section of Brooklyn is called by the locals, is one of the most dangerous places on earth—a place where homicide is a daily occurrence. Now, Greg Donaldson, a veteran urban reporter and a longtime teacher in Brooklyn’s toughest schools, evokes this landscape with stunning and frightening accuracy.

The Ville follows a year in the life of two urban black males from opposite sides of the street. Gary Lemite, an enthusiastic young Housing police officer, charges recklessly into gunfire in pursuit of respect and promotion. Sharron Corley, a member of a gang called the LoLifes and the star of the Thomas Jefferson High School play, is also looking for respect as he tries to survive these streets.

Brilliantly capturing the firestorm of violence that is destroying a generation, waged by teenagers who know at thirty yards the difference between a MAC-10 machine pistol and a .357 Magnum, The Ville is the story of our inner cities and the lives of the young men who remain trapped there. In the tradition of There Are No Children Here, Clockers, and Random Family, The Ville is a vivid and unforgettable contribution to our understanding of race and violence in America today.

  • Cover
  • THE VILLE
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: Likely
  • SUMMER
    • Don’t Give Up on Your Dreams
    • Gun Collar
    • One Male Black
    • “Get Out of Brownsville”
    • J. R. Junior
    • Props
    • The Scream
    • Payday
    • “No, Robo, No”
    • The Feds Are Clocking
    • Bloody Valentine
    • The Troops
    • Eddie on the Back
    • Old-Timers
    • “I Never Met the Man”
    • Hell Night
    • Kids’ Stuff
  • FALL
    • Jeff
    • “Come Behind Me”
    • “Straight to That Holy House”
    • Satellite
    • In Full Effect
    • Going to Represent
    • Apartment 5AB
    • “He Looks Like a Perp”
    • “Trap Off ”
    • “It Hurts, Price”
    • Riker’s Island
  • WINTER
    • “He’s Gone”
    • “Christmas Is for White People”
    • Country Boys
    • “Let the Dogs Loose”
    • Discontent
    • “Two Tears in a Bucket”
    • “I Like the Way I Am”
    • Homecoming
  • SPRING AND SUMMER
    • “I Can’t Walk”
    • “I Am the Ville”
    • Twenty-four Seven
    • Judgment
    • “Big Days”
    • Brownsville
  • Epilogue: Later
  • Epilogue: 1994
  • Epilogue: 2015