Outlaw gangs in an outlaw society : Borges' "The dread redeemer Lazarus Morell" and Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Irish immigrant : Asbury's Gangs of New York
The draft riots : Baker's Paradise Alley
Borges' "Monk Eastman, purveyor of iniquities"
A heritage of guns : McMurtry's Anything for Billy
The 1920s in Chicago : Farrell's Studs Lonigan
Jewish gangs in Brownsville, 1944/45 : Shulman's The Amboy Dukes
1940s in Harlem : Wright's Rite of passage
Nazis and gangs : Golding's The lord of the flies
A girl gang in the 1950s : Oates' Foxfire
The 1960s : S.E. Hinton's The outsiders
Vietnam and civil rights : Conroy's The lords of discipline
Prep schools and Watergate : The chocolate war
Family disintegration in the 1980's : Myers' Scorpions
1960s Los Angeles : Bonham's Durango Street
South Central Los Angeles : Scott's Monster
Barrio gangs of the 60s and 70s : Rodriguez' Always running
Filipino Americans : Ascalon's American son
Vietnamese gangs and skinheads : Garland's Shadow of the dragon
Chinese gangs : Mahoney's The two Chinatowns.
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Youth gangs in literature by Claudia Durst Johnson. ISBN 0313327491. Published by Greenwood Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
