{"id":24,"date":"2008-02-03T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T17:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/2008\/02\/03\/venkatesh-hits-newsweek\/"},"modified":"2008-02-03T13:33:37","modified_gmt":"2008-02-03T19:33:37","slug":"venkatesh-hits-newsweek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/02\/03\/venkatesh-hits-newsweek\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsweek on Venkatesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 1st, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/107460\">Newsweek<\/a> covered the release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.columbia.edu\/fac-bios\/venkatesh\/faculty.html\">Sudhir Venkatesh<\/a>&#8216;s latest book, <a href=\"http:\/\/us.penguingroup.com\/nf\/Book\/BookDisplay\/0,,9781594201509,00.html\">Gang Leader for a Day<\/a>. The book details Venkatesh&#8217;s experiences studying the lives of crack dealers in some of the most notorious housing projects in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Newsweek writer Jessica Bennett <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/107460\">remarks:<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;For the most part, Venkatesh atones for his clich\u00e9d reflections with raw detail of what life inside these projects\u2014at the height of the crack epidemic\u2014is really like. And he&#8217;s not oblivious to his own naivet\u00e9; he notes frequently that life in the projects is vastly different from his own upbringing in the suburbs of Southern California. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 1st, Newsweek covered the release of Sudhir Venkatesh&#8216;s latest book, Gang Leader for a Day. The book details Venkatesh&#8217;s experiences studying the lives of crack dealers in some of the most notorious housing projects in Chicago. Newsweek writer Jessica Bennett remarks: &#8220;For the most part, Venkatesh atones for his clich\u00e9d reflections with raw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39116,119],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-crime","tag-poverty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}