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Date Submitted: 01/26/2014 08:14 PM
The chapter that I choose to do a summary on is Chapter 2 Hoover: Not Just a Gang but a Way of Life. The chapter begins with a detailed description of the game followed by the difference between gang affiliates, gang members and gang bangers. Mad Dog states that once males are convinced that they will stay in the ghetto for the rest of their lives that their reality becomes a construct of their environment whether that being economically or culturally. Some young men from these environments look up to the ghetto superstars in their neighborhoods and they want to become that. According to Duck, the game consists of hustling to make a living. Duck felt like since he came from a single parent home that he had to fill the void for his absent father and the only way he thought he could do that was to turn to the street. Mann then goes into the difference between a gang affiliate, a gang member, and a gang banger.
Mann describes a gang affiliate as being a person that is involved in a gang by means of affiliation such as a person that is born into a gang environment or a person that has friends that are gang members. Mann and Duck describe how a gang member does not necessarily participate in street crime and violence, which they are not expected to do. They live in the hood and promote gang affiliation but they are not considered as gang bangers until they participate in street crimes or violence. If a gang member wants to be accepted as a gang banger, he would have to prove himself and create confrontation and violence to be considered worthy. Young males realize that the gang serves as a vessel to get money and to get street credibility as well. The chapter then goes into the process of gang joining.
The most thought provoking statement in the chapter was on page 25 when it says “Gang affiliates, members, and bangers seemed fully aware of the negative consequences associated with gansterism.” This statement is interesting because even though there are known...