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Title: |
â Indians Wear Redâ |
| Sub-title: |
Colonialism, Resistance, and Aboriginal Street Gangs |
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| By (author): |
Elizabeth Comack, Lawrence Deane, Larry Morrissette, Jim Silver |
| ISBN10-13: |
1552665828 : 9781552665824 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Weight: |
.499 Kg. |
| Published: |
Fernwood Publishing - August 2013 |
| List Price: |
18.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| With the advent of Aboriginal street gangs such as Indian Posse, Manitoba Warriors, and Native Syndicate, Winnipeg garnered a reputation as the â gang capital of Canada.â Yet beyond the stereotypes of outsiders, little is known about these street gangs and the factors and conditions that have produced them. â Indians Wear Redâ locates Aboriginal street gangs in the context of the racialized poverty that has become entrenched in the colonized space of Winnipegâ s North End. Drawing upon extensive interviews with Aboriginal street gang members as well as with Aboriginal women and elders, the authors develop an understanding from â insideâ the inner city and through the voices of Aboriginal people â especially street gang members themselves. While economic restructuring and neo-liberal state responses can account for the global proliferation of street gangs, the authors argue that colonialism is a crucial factor in the Canadian context, particularly in western Canadian urban centres. Young Aboriginal people have resisted their social and economic exclusion by acting collectively as â Indians.â But just as colonialism is destructive, so too are street gang activities, including the illegal trade in drugs. Solutions lie not in â quick fixesâ or â getting tough on crimeâ but in decolonization: re-connecting Aboriginal people with their cultures and building communities in which they can safely live and work. |
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