Living in a Violent Society in Gang for a Day: A Rogue Socialist Takes to the Street by Sadhir Venkatesh

Like thousands of students, Sudhir entered the graduate school of the University of Chicago in 1989 and was sent from his professor to study the urban poor in the United States. By that time, he barely touched the outskirts of Chicago. He was detained and nearly killed him as he first knelt down one of Chicago's most devastated areas. Fortunately, he is not injured, he got acquainted with the gang leader J.T. This led to his strange friendship with JT in the next decade.

One day gang leader was a six - year explanation of six - year residential program study by Sudhir Venkatesh as a social studies graduate student in Chicago. Early in the University of Chicago, Venkatesh met Black Kings, a powerful gang involving many crack contracts in Chicago. Although he is interested in studying poverty in the city, he can not miss seeing how gangs work and learning more about the roles they play in the community. Through friendship with Black King's faction leader J.T, Venkatesh has acquired an unprecedented housing project, Robert Taylor Homes. The title of the book comes from the fact that JT appointed him to lead that day to teach Venkatesh to participate in the gang behavior.

Senior leader of Sudhir Gang Venkatesh is the best non-fiction book I have ever read as a gang leader of the day. Written by Sudhir Venkatesh, this book is about his experience as a graduate student at the University of Chicago. For his sociological course, Sudhir decided to investigate the economic situation of blacks in the Chicago project. But when he realized that the tenant did not want to participate, he took an alternative approach to understanding these projects by becoming a member of the gang called "Black King". Understand how to handle the gang hierarchy and business while maintaining a good relationship with the leader and the community. - Oliver Greenwold, grade 2019