American Project

The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh

Foreword by William Julius Wilson

  • Winner of the 2000 Association of American Publishers Inc. Award for Sociology and Anthropology in the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division

Foreword

Preface

Introduction

1. A Place to Call Home

2. Doing the Hustle

3. "What's It Like to Be in Hell?"

4. Tenants Face Off with the Gang

5. Street-Gang Diplomacy

6. The Beginning of the End of a Modern Ghetto

Author's Note

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: American Project
  • A photo of the author

Author photo: Copyright Paul L. Meredith

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University.