Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
Finnegan spent time with families in four communities across America and became an intimate observer of the lives revealed in these portraits: a fifteen-year-old drug dealer in blighted New Haven, Connecticut; a sleepy Texas town transformed when crack arrives; Mexican American teenagers in Washington State, unable to relate to their immigrant parents and trying to find an identity in gangs; jobless young white supremacists in a downwardly mobile L.A. suburb.
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- 1998
- ISBN-13
- 9780716731436
- Genre
- Politics & Current Affairs
- Topics
- Poverty and inequalityYouth and gangsAmerican communities in decline
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current InterestShortlisted(1998)
Other awarded books from William Finnegan
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