Out To Defend Ourselves (häftad, eng)

This first critical history of a street gang in a Canadian city is a result of a four-year collaboration between a university professor (Ted Rutland) and the leader of les Belangers (Maxime Aurelien). Out to Defend Ourselves tells the story of Montreal's first Haitian street gang, les Belangers.

It traces how the gang emerged from a group of Haitian friends, the children of migrants from Haiti in the 1970s. It documents the forms of racial violence they experienced and their battles against them. It also documents the everyday lives of the gang members, the petty crime some members engaged in to make ends meet, and how the police actions against the gang changed its nature and function - making it, finally, a more criminally oriented and violent formation.

It is a story about a gang, but it is also a story of young Haitians making their lives in 1970s and 80s Montreal and a story about Montreal in a period of great change.

Format	Häftad
Omfång	192 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
Utgivningsdatum	2023-06-27
ISBN	9781773635965