An interesting book review

An interesting review of an interesting new book [Gang Leader for Day] by a sociologist who spent 7 years studying a gang running drugs [and also oddly organizing] out of a Chicago housing project. Touches on some of the issues we're grappling with in class: informants, getting in and getting out, balancing your research agenda with informants' agendas, colleagues' agendas, and larger, political agendas, and the possibility of disillusionment with people, groups, and institutions as a result of what you've learned during your time in the field. If this link won't take you there, the Salon article is called "the unlikeliest gangbanger".

sarah