Terms
Organization
Gang Life
Gang Members
Facts
100
This is similar to the European-model patriarchy, in which men contributed economically and made decisions in the household.
What is Latino "macho" masculinity?
100
These are the 2 main organizations described in Chapter 4?
What are Victory Outreach and Homeboy Industries
100
"Veterano" is a term used to describe new or incoming gang members
What is false
100
This person started his own gang but later joined the Playboys, became a "veterano", and was later rejected from becoming a pastor
Who is Ivan
100
This is the epicenter of the American gang problem.
What is Los Angeles
200
This is characterized by unemployment, absence from the household, and substance abuse, as well as cold, distant relationships with partners and children, and romantic affairs outside of marriage.
What is "Latino machismo?"
200
Homeboy Industries uses this type of recovery program to help gang members become community members
What is group therapy and job skills in order to reorient men from the streets to the household
200
This term describes how somebody could receive protection on the streets, group loyalty, and a feeling of family belonging, but can also encompass violent, self-destructive behavior.
What is Gang membership
200
This person ran with a local gang called TMC, as a drug dealer at age 13.
Who is Mario
200
This population of gang members in the US is located in Los Angeles and is approximately this size
What is ~152,000 documented gang members
300
This describes Chicano recovering gang members' reorientation from the street to the household.
What is "Reformed barrio masculinity?"
300
True or false, Victory Outreach is a non-profit organization that transforms gang members through a top-down hierarchy by helping gang members recover through education and work experience?
What is False
300
These are some customs and rituals of gang members
What are hand signals, graffiti, clothing style, substance abuse, romantic affairs, violence, etc.
300
After attending Victory Outreach, this person continued to use drugs and alcohol, eventually lost his job, his wife left him and took their daughter which led to him attempting to commit suicide
Who is Santiago
300
The three types of generations with Mexican Origins are...
What are 1.5, 2nd, and 3rd generations. 1.5 gen are people born in Mexico but brought to the US before the age of 13. 2nd gen are people who may have been born to at least one undocumented person. 3rd gen are people whose parents were both US citizens
400
This term has been called gender order by Raewyn Connell by instituting regimes that pattern gendered practices.
What is Chicano gang masculinity
400
This organization has been described as a "spiritual boot camp" that enforces roles, teaches discipline and makes Christian "soldiers" of gang members and drug addicts.
What is "Victory Outreach?"
400
South Los Angeles's 38th street gang is one of the region's oldest and most notorious gangs that was implicated by this event in 1942
What are the Zoot Suit Riots of 1942
400
This 21 year old was in and out of Homeboy Industries, was deported to Mexico, shot in the leg and continued with his limited gang life through the Playboys
Who is Gerardo
400
This law mandates life sentences for multiple felony charges.
What is the Three Strikes Law
500
Men experience oppression through structural barriers to mainstream society, but they become preoccupied with the authentic expression of a competing form of masculinity through this term
What is Marginalized Masculinity
500
Victory Outreach uses this type of recovery program to reorient men into the household
What is emphasizes improving one's character through forms of spiritual growth, such as living in the men's recovery home, worshipping at church services and spending time reading the bible
500
These veteran gang members have ambitions to start families and give back to their communities, and find it more difficult to do 'reformed barrio masculinity'.
Who are older gang members in recovery
500
This person was raised in a Christian household, attended USC, joined the military, began using crystal Meth and committed crimes with gangs to support his drug habits. He later became a member of Victory Outreach
Who is Rick
500
This measure works with the Secure Communities measure by deporting Latinos for minor offenses and is thought to help increase crime by scaring immigrants from coming foreword as witnesses.
What is the 287(g) Measure