![]() ![]() "This is the thing that surprised me the most," Venkatesh says. The result is his new book, Gang Leader for a Day. Instead of being put off for good, he returned the next day with a better set of questions and wound up hanging out there for seven years to get the answers. But as a 23-year-old grad student in sociology, Sudhir Venkatesh went against the University of Chicago's strident warnings to stay within the bounds of safety, visiting one of the city's notorious housing projects.Īrmed with only a clipboard and a survey on what it meant to be poor and black in America, Venkatesh was promptly taken hostage. Most people have never dared venture inside a gang selling crack cocaine - not to do research, anyway. Each week, we present leading authors of fiction and nonfiction as they read from and discuss their work. Low-Wage America The Underground Economy of the Urban Poorīook Tour is a Web feature and podcast. ![]()
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