Street gangs have been a major social problem in the United States for decades, but an understanding of the conditions that cause or prevent them has seemingly not increased over the years. Crips and Bloods: Made in America offers though insight as to how the Bloods and Crips emerged in Los Angeles. The film recognized that these two gangs occurred in a larger historical and social context, one dominated by social forces aside from, and in addition to, an individual’s personal desires. Director Stacy Peralta identified a variety of social contexts in which the effects of, (1) low socioeconomic status, (2) stigma power, and (3) household and family structure produced the two most dangerous gangs in Los Angeles: Bloods & Crips.
In the mid-1960s
In the mid-1960s