New book by Martin Sanzchez-Jankowski
August 9, 2008 at 2:47 am | In barbershops, beauty salons, gangs, grocery stores, neighborhoods, new books, what to read | Leave a CommentCracks in the Pavement: Social Change and Resilience in Poor Neighborhoods (University of California Press), based on nearly a decade of fieldwork in New York and Los Angeles, examines how several types of local organizations—the grocery store, the barbershop and beauty salon, the local high school, the gang, and the housing project—structure order and stability in urban neighborhoods.
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