Reading: Youth Street Gangs by David C. Brotherton retrieved from vitalsource.com and I will provide the login information when a writer is chosen.
A plagiarism report is required after completion.
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Assignment:
After reading Chapter 5 and watching the video explaining the mano dura strategies in El Salvador. Discuss with your classmates the following topics:
How are social problems exported?
-Address how is gang talk a discourse of power? Who are the social actors?
-How are tropes reinforced
-How does demonizing gang talk differ around the world? (Spain)
For this discussion, you will also need to read Chapter 5 and focus on the subtitles Gang desire and commodification and Gangs as the seductive Other. Once you have carefully watched the documentary discuss with your classmates: How are gangs a desire and community? Describe how gangs are seductive to youths. How are gangs performative in the carnival of crime?