We have no control over the lives we are born into. Some of us are tall, others short; some blonde, others brunette; but all of us are lucky enough to have families that care for us and communities invested in our future.
Imagine if you can what your life would have been like had you been born and raised in the Chicago Housing
Projects. Trying to envision how different our lives might have turned out as a result would be near impossible I think—at least until Sudhir Venkatesh wrote this book. He went undercover for many years as an affiliate of the
Black Kings drug gang and became very close with its leader J.T. Over the course of the book he gets shot at by a rival gang, retaliates against others, learns the ins and outs of manufacturing and
Imagine if you can what your life would have been like had you been born and raised in the Chicago Housing
Projects. Trying to envision how different our lives might have turned out as a result would be near impossible I think—at least until Sudhir Venkatesh wrote this book. He went undercover for many years as an affiliate of the
Black Kings drug gang and became very close with its leader J.T. Over the course of the book he gets shot at by a rival gang, retaliates against others, learns the ins and outs of manufacturing and