The Crooked Ladder : Gangsters, Ethnicity and the American Dream Paperback - 2002
by O'Kane, James M
- Used
Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians. "The Crooked Ladder" represents a groundbreaking attempt to describe how some members of ethnic minorities have utilized organized crime as one vehicle of upward mobility, advancing from lower-class status to middle-class power and respectability.
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- Title The Crooked Ladder : Gangsters, Ethnicity and the American Dream
- Author O'Kane, James M
- Binding Paperback
- Edition New edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2002-01-30
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 6021610-6
- ISBN 9780765809940 / 076580994X
- Weight 0.65 lbs (0.29 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 5.96 x 0.5 in (22.96 x 15.14 x 1.27 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Ethnic relations, Minorities - United States - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003267613
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.106
