{"product_id":"divide-conquer-9781439919477","title":"Divide  Conquer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArgues that contemporary identity politics divides gang members and their communities across racial lines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“This is a provocative, clearly-written participant-ethnographic and mixed-methods longue durée study of Los Angeles gangs that documents the tragedy of racialized urban killing fields in the United States. Weide argues that racist law enforcement governance practices and the populist appeal of U.S. race-based identity politics blind the most vulnerable sectors of the surplus working class to their common political-material self-interests.”\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePhilippe Bourgois\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio \u003c\/i\u003eand coauthor of \u003ci\u003eRighteous Dopefiend\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eDivide \u0026amp; Conquer \u003ci\u003efocuses on the agency of gang members and the imprisoned in order to highlight their experiences and analyses that allow them to engineer prison strikes for human rights, win concessions, and decrease violence and harm. With complex organizing, they build transracial\/ethnic unity within dangerous California prisons. Their leadership challenges violent captivity to offer transracial peacemaking and solidarity strategies. Departing from popular abolitionist narratives, \u003c\/i\u003eDivide \u0026amp; Conquer \u003ci\u003ereminds us that we need transformative leadership from those inside prison and underground economies as they, and we, collectively challenge the racism, capitalism, poverty, exploitation, and dishonor that shape our alienation.”\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJoy James\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power, Communities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eDivide \u0026amp; Conquer \u003ci\u003eis groundbreaking gang scholarship featuring a tremendous amount of historical background and 'insider' knowledge. Weide systematically analyzes and describes the black and brown tension among gangs in Los Angeles. The remarkable access Weide had to so many L.A. gang members and his ability to get them to speak about this sensitive issue are invaluable. This book certainly poses a challenge to the conventional gang and race\/ethnicity literature.”\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRandol Contreras\u003c\/b\u003e, Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"[A]n excellent ethnographic case-study.... \u003c\/i\u003eDivide and Conquer\u003ci\u003e offers a compelling read and conceptual rethink of gang identities and violence in contemporary urban landscapes not just in America but across the capitalist world.... \u003c\/i\u003eDivide and Conquer\u003ci\u003e is [a] ground-breaking study that challenges conventional conceptualizations and approaches to the gang and race\/ethnicity literature. You know it is a good book when it draws you into the scholarship and makes you question your own conceptual approach to studying gangs.\"\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003cb\u003eEthnic and Racial Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"[Weide's] analysis lands like a Molotov cocktail, exploding the racialist ideologies that give shape not only to much contemporary scholarship, political chatter, and community activism, but—most importantly to the author—also to the gang dynamics pervading the streets of Los Angeles and the prisons of California.... \u003c\/i\u003eDivide \u0026amp; Conquer\u003ci\u003e is an insider participant ethnography spanning a decade of formal fieldwork and perhaps three decades of lived experience and observation.... Gang members are lucky to have Weide as a comrade in their ongoing struggles; everyone else is lucky to have him as a scholarly documentarian of these important efforts.\"\u003c\/i\u003e —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSocial Forces\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408320373079,"sku":"9781439919477","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/divide-conquer-9781439919477","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}