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Manufacturing the gang Mexican American youth gangs on local television news / by Tovares, Raúl Damacio, 1952-

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Our gang : a racial history of the little rascals / by Lee, Julia Sun-Joo, 1976-

Subjects: “…Our Gang films History and criticism.…”
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Youth gangs in literature by Johnson, Claudia Durst, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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Breath of scandal / by Brown, Sandra, 1948-

Subjects: “…Gang rape Fiction.…”
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The Bandana Republic a literary anthology by gang members and their affiliates /

Subjects: “…Gang members' writings, American.…”
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The Godfather and American culture how the Corleones became "Our Gang" / by Messenger, Christian K., 1943-

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Other renaissances a new approach to world literature /

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Dirt road home / by Key, Watt

Subjects: “…Gangs Juvenile fiction Alabama.…”

In envy country stories / by Frank, Joan, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…A note on the type -- A thing that happens -- Betting on men -- Rearview -- In envy country -- Picaro -- Sandy candy -- Savoir faire, savoir vivre -- The sun on the Ganges.…”
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Literature and the environment

Table of Contents: “…Cohen -- Gary snyder, turtle island (1974) / George Hart -- Edward Abbey, The monkey wrench gang (1975) / David Fenimore -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The earthsea trilogy (1977) / Susan Palwick -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (1977) / Scott Slovic -- Barry Lopez, Arctic dreams (1986) / Jen Hill -- Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge (1991) / Cheryll Glotfelty -- Denise Levertov, The life around us (1997) / George Hart.…”
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Newspeak in the 21st century by Edwards, David, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…No conspiracy : solving the propaganda puzzle -- BBC balance : the magnificent fiction -- Back to back bias : an A-Z of BBC propaganda -- Climate chaos : keeping madness mainstream -- Plan A/Plan B: the Downing Street memo -- Mind your methodology : killing the 2004 Lancet report -- One million dead and counting : the 2006 Lancet report and beyond -- Bitter harvest : bombings in Britain, Spain and Iraq -- Israel and Palestine : an eye for an eyelash -- Real men go to Tehran : targeting Iran -- Iran in Iraq -- Venezuela : dousing the firebrand -- Liberal press gang : behind the scenes at the Independent and the Guardian -- Brilliant fools : snarls, smears and the dark art of Willy-waving -- Compassion, awareness and honest journalism.…”
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Hand of fire the comics art of Jack Kirby / by Hatfield, Charles, 1965-

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American cinema and the southern imaginary

Table of Contents: “…The celluloid war before the birth: race and history in early American film / Robert Jackson -- Mammy's "mules" and the rules of marriage in Gone with the Wind / Riché Richardson -- Bodies and expectations: chain gang discipline / Leigh Anne Duck -- The postwar cinematic South: realism and the politics of liberal consensus / Chris Cagle -- A "professional southerner" in the Hollywood studio system: Lamar Trotti at work, 1934-1952 / Matthew H. …”
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Nightmares of the lettered city : banditry and literature in Latin America, 1816-1929 / by Dabove, Juan Pablo

Table of Contents: “…El periquillo sarniento : banditry as the non plus ultra -- Facundo : banditry and the state as nomadic war machine -- El chacho : banditry and allegories of legitimation -- O cabelleira : cangaceiros, sacarocracy, and the invention of a national tradition -- El zarco : banditry and foundational allegories for the nation-state -- Criminology : banditry as the wound of history -- Astucia : banditry and insurgent utopia -- Zárate : banditry, nation, and the experience of the limits -- Martín Fierro : banditry and the frontiers of the voice -- Juan Moreira : the gaucho malo as unpopular hero -- Alma gaucha : the gaucho outlaw and the leviathan -- Los bandidos de Ría Frío : banditry, the criminal state, and the critique of Porfirian illusions -- Os sertões : original banditry and the crimes of nations -- La guerra gaucha : bandit and founding father in the epic of the nation-state -- Los de abajo : the feast, the bandit gang, the bola (revolution and its metaphors) -- Cesarismo democrático : banditry and the necessary gendarme (the shadow of the Caudillo I) -- Doña Bárbara : banditry and the illusions of modernity (the shadow of the Caudillo II).…”
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Postcolonial green environmental politics & world narratives /

Table of Contents: “…Arundhati Roy: environment and uneven form / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee; Jungle tide, devouring reef: (post)colonial anxiety and ecocritique in Sri Lankan literature / Sharae Deckard; Fragments of Shangri-La: "eco-Tibet" and its global circuits / Gang Yue; Diggers, strangers, and broken men: environmental prophecy and the commodifcation of nature in Keri Hulme's The bone people / Laura Wright -- Africa. …”
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The harms of crime media essays on the perpetuation of racism, sexism and class stereotypes /

Table of Contents: “…Hepner -- Monstrous, demonic and evil: media constructs of women who kill / Kate Whiteley -- Gangs, politics and media: lessons from the New York chapter of the Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation / Louis Kontos -- Inequalities in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: stereotypes in the CSI investigators / Denise L. …”
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