The Discourse of Gangs: Angelville Graffiti

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  • D. M. Anderson
  • Ralph Cintron
چکیده

Acknowledgements The data used in this paper is that of Professor Cintron. Some he collected before I began my assistanship, and the rest was collected after January, 1991. Many of my observations in this paper have come from my year of working with Professor Cintron. Observations arose in conversation or sometimes in writing, but it is difficult to footnote the exact source. I highly recomend Dr. Cintron's writings for anyone who is intrigued by some of the ideas offered in this paper. In questions of conflict in citation to Dr. Cintron's work, I defer. Mostly I would like to thank Dr. Cintron for his unending support, and I hope this work does his data justice . I would also like to thank Dr. Laura Ghaham for her guidence as both my instructor and advisor.

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تاریخ انتشار 2008