The Neighborhood Outfit

Author : Louis Corsino
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252096662

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The Neighborhood Outfit by Louis Corsino Pdf

From the slot machine trust of the early 1900s to the prolific Prohibition era bootleggers allied with Al Capone, and for decades beyond, organized crime in Chicago Heights, Illinois, represented a vital component of the Chicago Outfit. Louis Corsino taps interviews, archives, government documents, and his own family's history to tell the story of the Chicago Heights "boys" and their place in the city's Italian American community in the twentieth century. Debunking the popular idea of organized crime as a uniquely Italian enterprise, Corsino delves into the social and cultural forces that contributed to illicit activities. As he shows, discrimination blocked opportunities for Italians' social mobility and the close-knit Italian communities that arose in response to such limits produced a rich supply of social capital Italians used to pursue alternative routes to success that ranged from Italian grocery stores to union organizing to, on occasion, crime.

Author : Louis Corsino
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252038711

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The Neighborhood Outfit by Louis Corsino Pdf

From the slot machine trust of the early 1900s to the prolific Prohibition era bootleggers allied with Al Capone, and for decades beyond, organized crime in Chicago Heights, Illinois, represented a vital component of the Chicago Outfit. Louis Corsino taps interviews, archives, government documents, and his own family's history to tell the story of the Chicago Heights "boys" and their place in the city's Italian American community in the twentieth century. Debunking the popular idea of organized crime as a uniquely Italian enterprise, Corsino delves into the social and cultural forces that contributed to illicit activities. As he shows, discrimination blocked opportunities for Italians' social mobility and the close-knit Italian communities that arose in response to such limits produced a rich supply of social capital Italians used to pursue alternative routes to success that ranged from Italian grocery stores to union organizing to, on occasion, crime.

Author : Douglas D. Murray
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Arizona
ISBN : 9780741436139

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The 1001 Outfit by Douglas D. Murray Pdf

Apaches, outlaws, thieves and killers bedevil Al Stuart after he finds a fabulous gold mine while riding to establish a new ranch in Arizona Territory's lonely Mogollon Rim forests.

Author : Betsy Klimasmith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192846211

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Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City by Betsy Klimasmith Pdf

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed. In the four decades following the Revolutionary War, the new nation was a loose network of nascent cities connected by print. Before a national culture could develop, local city cultures took shape; literary texts played key roles in helping new Americans become city people. Drawing on extensive archival research, Urban Rehearsals argues that literature, particularly novels and plays, allowed Bostonians to navigate the transition from colonial town to post-revolution city, enabled Philadelphians to grieve their experiences of the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic and rebuild in the epidemic's aftermath, and showed New Yorkers how the domestic practices that reinforced their urbanity could be opened to the broader public. Throughout, attention to underrepresented voices and texts calls attention to the possibilities for women, immigrants, and Black Americans in developing urban spaces, while showing how those possibilities would be foreclosed as the nation developed. Balancing attention to canonical texts of the early Republic, including The Power of Sympathy, Charlotte Temple, and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, with novels whose depiction of early cities deserves greater attention, such as Ormond, The Boarding-School, Monima, and Kelroy, this volume shows how US cities developed on the pages and stages of the early Republic, building urban imaginations that would construct the nation's early cities.

Author : Louis Corsino
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438497631

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Hopelessly Alien by Louis Corsino Pdf

Hopelessly Alien is an in-depth study of Italian immigration to Chicago Heights, Illinois, between 1910 and 1950. Drawing upon oral histories, interviews, historical documents, and census materials, Louis Corsino examines the critical concept of hope, which most immigration studies have cast in privatized, psychological terms as the motivation to emigrate in search of a better life. This investigation offers a more contentious, sociological perspective, depicting hope as both an ideological lure to recruit and manage the "foreign element" and as a resource immigrants employed to purchase acceptance and avoid a disparaging label as a "hopelessly alien" stranger. These dialectical processes are illustrated through the Italian immigrants' pursuit of occupational mobility and homeownership, and the appropriation of their children's hopes. Each became forms of cultural capital that demonstrated a public commitment to the American ethos of "joyful striving." Each provided measures of success, but these individual pursuits came at the expense of upsetting the necessary tension between individual and communal hopes.

Author : John M. Hagedorn
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226233093

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The Insane Chicago Way by John M. Hagedorn Pdf

“His account of relationships between street gangs of this period and Chicago’s Outfit, the legacy of Al Capone and others, is especially important.” —James F. Short, author of Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime In The Insane Chicago Way, John M. Hagedorn’s lively stories of extensive cross-neighborhood gang organization, tales of police/gang corruption, and discovery of covert gang connections to Chicago’s Mafia challenge conventional wisdom and offer lessons for the control of violence today. The book centers on the secret history of Spanish Growth & Development (SGD)—an organization of Latino gangs founded in 1989 and modeled on the Mafia’s nationwide Commission. It also tells a story within a story of the criminal exploits of the C-Note$, the “minor league” team of the Chicago’s Mafia (called the “Outfit”), which influenced the direction of SGD. Hagedorn’s tale is based on three years of interviews with an Outfit soldier as well as access to SGD’s constitution and other secret documents, which he supplements with interviews of key SGD leaders, court records, and newspaper accounts. The result is a stunning, heretofore unknown history of the grand ambitions of Chicago gang leaders that ultimately led to SGD’s shocking collapse in a pool of blood on the steps of a gang-organized peace conference. The Insane Chicago Way is a compelling history of the lives and deaths of Chicago gang leaders. At the same time it is a sociological tour de force that warns of the dangers of organized crime while arguing that today’s relative disorganization of gangs presents opportunities for intervention and reductions in violence. “An intricate tale of violence, mafia influence, and police corruption.” —Chicago Reader

Author : Clare Sears
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822376194

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Arresting Dress by Clare Sears Pdf

In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, facilitating over one hundred arrests before the century’s end. Over forty U.S. cities passed similar laws during this time, yet little is known about their emergence, operations, or effects. Grounded in a wealth of archival material, Arresting Dress traces the career of anti-cross-dressing laws from municipal courtrooms and codebooks to newspaper scandals, vaudevillian theater, freak-show performances, and commercial “slumming tours.” It shows that the law did not simply police normative gender but actively produced it by creating new definitions of gender normality and abnormality. It also tells the story of the tenacity of those who defied the law, spoke out when sentenced, and articulated different gender possibilities.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : California
ISBN : WISC:89063098800

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The Overland Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CHI:74717492

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Overland Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : West (U.S.)
ISBN : UCD:31175001702029

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Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Adcock
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504060035

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Sea of Green by Thomas Adcock Pdf

The first in the “beautifully written” Edgar-winning series featuring an NYPD detective working the mean streets of Manhattan’s West Side (The Washington Post). Detective Neil Hockaday, a son of Hell’s Kitchen who grew up to join the NYPD, had a promising meeting scheduled with a snitch—until his informant turned up dead. Meanwhile, a prominent Harlem preacher with a lot of followers, and friends in high places, has been receiving death threats—and Hock’s assigned to keep Father Love alive and find out who’s after him. But Hock’s harrowing work life hits close to home when he discovers a dead body in his own bathtub and must untangle whether—and how—all these events are connected . . . “A satisfying narrative . . . Adcock’s picture of the Big Apple is not pretty, but it is gripping and effective.” —Publishers Weekly

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Forest fires
ISBN : UOM:39015069642125

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Fire Management by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Marshall
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736965293

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The Good Dad Guide by Charles Marshall Pdf

Most dads want to be awesome dads who are willing to do whatever it takes to help their children grow into successful adults. And they want to have fun doing it! With his trademark humor, Christian comedian and motivational speaker Charles Marshall helps guide dads through the joys and trials of fatherhood. With intriguing insights, biblically based wisdom, and stories from his life and the lives of others, he explores seven key attributes of awesome dads and shares why real men change diapers how to maximize time with your kids why you should sometimes let your kids fail when you need to fight for your kids how becoming a father can be the best thing you never intended From encouraging dads to participate in their children's lives to sharing practical ways to prepare kids for adulthood and everything in between, Charles Marshall helps men gain the confidence they need to be awesome dads.

Author : Takehaya
Publisher : J-Novel Club
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-04
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781718312104

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Invaders of the Rokujouma!? Volume 6 by Takehaya Pdf

Lately, Koutarou has been growing more and more suspicious of Kiriha. Claiming that she's come to invade the surface is one thing, but what on earth is she doing helping the neighborhood association clean up the city? Is this all part of some nefarious plan? Or is there something else going on? When Koutarou works up the nerve to confront her about it, she responds by... asking him on a date?!

Author : Carrie Firestone
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781984816443

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Dress Coded by Carrie Firestone Pdf

In this debut middle-grade girl-power friendship story, perfect for fans of Moxie, an eighth grader starts a podcast to protest the unfair dress code enforcement at her middle school and sparks a rebellion. Molly Frost is FED UP... Because Olivia was yelled at for wearing a tank top. Because Liza got dress coded and Molly didn't, even though they were wearing the exact same outfit. Because when Jessica was pulled over by the principal and missed a math quiz, her teacher gave her an F. Because it's impossible to find shorts that are longer than her fingertips. Because girls' bodies are not a distraction. Because middle school is hard enough. And so Molly starts a podcast where girls can tell their stories, and before long, her small rebellion swells into a revolution. Because now the girls are standing up for what's right, and they're not backing down.