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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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The Bandana Republic a literary anthology by gang members and their affiliates /

Subjects: “…Gang members' writings, American.…”
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Hard labor and hard time Florida's "Sunshine Prison" and chain gangs / by Miller, Vivien M. L.

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Bringing the war home the Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and the revolutionary violence in the sixties and seventies / by Varon, Jeremy, 1969-

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Gangster tour of Texas by Baker, T. Lindsay

Table of Contents: “…Bonnie and Clyde slept here : on the trail of the Barrow Gang -- Four brothers in crime : the Newton Boys, express car and bank robbers of Uvalde -- The Southern Pacific payroll robbery in El Paso : an attempted heist, the murder of an innocent man, and an international prisoner exchange -- Becky Rogers, the flapper bandit -- The Stanton frame-up : killing blameless men for a bounty -- The Santa Claus Bank Robbery -- Captain Charlie and the Rum King of San Antonio -- The Urschel kidnapping : Machine Gun Kelly's foray into Texas -- The Texas and Pacific mail robbery in Fort Worth : robbery, cold-blooded murder, and incarceration on Alcatraz -- The unsolved murder of Frank Nand Singh: immigrant smuggling on the Mexican border in the 1930s -- The Post morphine ring : dope dealing at the edge of the Caprock -- The greatest medical charlatan of them all : Dr. …”
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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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Minding the South by Reed, John Shelton

Table of Contents: “…Bradford -- What they say about Dixie -- Of Collard greens and kings -- Red and yellow, black, and white -- Telling about the South -- The imagined South -- Six Southerners -- Lady propagandist of the Old South -- The man from New Orleans -- The world's best-selling novelist -- Mover and shaker -- Hardy perennial -- The southern Elvis -- The end of Elvis -- Southern culture, High and low -- Southern laughter -- A cokelorist at work -- The national magazine of the South -- Carolina couch crime -- Southern lit (and one movie) -- Taking a stand -- Portrait of Atlanta -- Nebbish from Mississippi -- Hollywood chain gangs -- Reflections -- The banner that Won't stay furled -- The most Southern state? …”
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Literature of the People's Republic of China /

Table of Contents: “…Part one: From Yenan to Peking (1942-1955): Mao Tse-Tung ; Mao Tun ; Ting Ling ; Hu Feng ; Yang Shuo ; Li Chun ; Ai Wu ; Chun Ch'ing ; Liu Pai-Yu ; Fei Li-Wen ; Wang Yuan-Chien ; Ho Ch'iu ; Ts'ui Pa-Wa ; Chang Yung-Mei ; Hus Ch'ih ; Li Chi ; Liang Shang-Ch'uan ; T'ien Chien ; Shih Fang-Yu -- Part two: The Hundred Flowers Movement and the Anti-Rightist Campaign (1956-1958): Hsiao Chun ; Ch'in Chao-Yang ; Liu Pin-Yen ; Wang Meng ; Chou Li-Po ; Ju Chih-Chuan ; Chou Erh-Fu ; Fang Chi ; Liang Pin ; Tu P'eng-Ch'eng ; Yang Mo ; K'ang Cho ; Ai Ch'ing ; Feng Chih ; Ho Ching-Chih ; Li Chi ; Li Ying ; Mao Tse-Tung ; Pien Chih-Lin ; Tsang K'o-Chia ; Tsou Ti-Fan -- Part three: The Great Leap Forward and anti-revisionism (1959-1961): Yueh Yeh ; Sun Ch'ien ; Chou Yang ; Liu Ch'ing ; Chao Hsun ; Wang Wen-Shih ; Chao Shu-Li ; T'ang K'o-Hsin ; Sha Ting ; Chang Yung-Mei ; Chao P'u-Ch'u ; Ch'en Yi ; Ho Ch'i-Fang ; Ho Ching-Chih ; Hsiao San ; Hsieh Ch'i-Kuei ; Kuo Hsiao-Ch'uan ; Li Chi ; Li Ying ; Liang Shang-Ch'uan ; Sha Pai ; Wen Chieh ; Yen Chen -- Part four: The socialist education of the people (1962-1964): Ma Feng ; Ou-Yang Shan ; Liu Chen ; Li Ying-Ju ; Hu Wan-Ch'un ; Ch'en Yun, Chang Li-Hui ; Hsu Ching-Hsien ; Shao Ch'uan-Lin ; Chang Chih-Min ; Chang Yung-Mei ; Chao P'u-Ch'u ; Ch'en Yi ; Ho Ch'i-Fang ; Ho Ching-Chih ; Hsiao San ; Joa Meng-K'an ; Juan Chang-Ching ; Ko Pi-Chou ; Kuo Hsiao-Ch'uan ; Kuo Mo-Jo ; Li Ying ; Liang Shang-Ch'uan ; Liu Cheng ; T'ai Teh-Ch'ien ; T'ang Ta-T'ung ; T'ien Chien ; Tsang K'o-Chi ; Yen Yi ; Chang Wan-Shu ; Cheng Ch'eng-Yi ; Chi P'eng ; Chiang Jih ; Ko Fei ; Kung Hsi ; Li Chia-Hsun ; Lu Ch'i ; Ning Yu ; Shhih Wen-Hsiung ; Shih Ying ; Wang Shih-Hsiang ; Lutpulla Matallep ; K'e-Li-Mu Huo-Chia ; Wang Ch'eng-Tung ; Rabchai Tsazang ; Chang Ch'ang ; Chiang P'ing, Huang Shou-Ch'ang ; Tseng Chi-Neng ; Liu Hsueh-Chung ; Ku Liu ; Chia Ch'i-Feng -- Part five: The great proletarian cultural revolution (1964-1970): Lao She ; Teng T'o ; T'ien Han ; Hsia Yen ; Revolutionary Peking Opera ; Yang Han-Sheng ; Lu Yang-Lieh ; Wang Chia-Pin ; Ho Ching-Chih ; Mao Tse-Tung ; Ch'iu Yen ; Shen Jen-K'ang ; Wei Chih -- Part six: The aftermath: The fall of the Gang of Four--Returns and reversals (1971- ): Wei Wei ; Hao Jan ; Ma Chi and T'ang Chieh-Chung ; Yang Hsing-Wang ; Yao Hsueh-Yin ; Malchinhu ; The dissenting voice ; Ai Ch'ing ; Chen Yang ; Ch'en Kuan-Hsuan ; Feng Ching-Yuan ; Ho Ch'i-Fang ; Hsu Yu and Huo Hua ; Kuo Hsiao-Ch'uan ; Kuo Mo-Jo ; Li Ying ; Pa Shan ; Ping Hsin ; Shen Yung-Ch'ang.…”
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