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Benjamin Wallace-Wells
Posted inMagazine

Gang Leader for a Day

by Benjamin Wallace-Wells

t has been something of a surprise, given that the problems of the American inner city have become a less urgent public obsession in recent years, to discover an emerging renaissance in the field of ghetto sociology. In popular culture, the pioneer in this arena has been David Simon, the creator of the HBO series […]