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Winner, 2014 Distinguished Contribution to Research Award presented by the Latina/o Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association Los Angeles is the epicenter of the American gang problem. Rituals and customs from Los Angeles eastside gangs, including hand signals, graffiti, and clothing styles, have spread to small towns and big cities alike. Many see the problem with gangs as related to urban marginalityfor a Latino immigrant population struggling with poverty and social integration, gangs offer a close-knit community. Yet, as Edward Orozco Flores argues in Gods Gangs, gang members can be successfully redirected out of gangs through efforts that change the context in which they find themselves, as well as their notions of what it means to be a man. Flores here illuminates how Latino men recover from gang life through involvement in urban, faith-based organizations. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with Homeboy Industries, a Jesuit-founded non-profit that is one of the largest gang intervention programs in the country, and with Victory Outreach, a Pentecostal ministry with over 600 chapters, Flores demonstrates that organizations such as these facilitate recovery from gang life by enabling gang members to reinvent themselves as family men and as members of their community. The book offers a window into the process of redefining masculinity. As Flores convincingly shows, gang members are not trapped in a cycle of poverty and marginality. With the help of urban ministries, such men construct a reformed barrio masculinity to distance themselves from gang life. Instructors Guide

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Gods Gangs
Gods Gangs
BARRIO MINISTRY, MASCULINITY, AND GANG RECOVERY
Edward Orozco Flores
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Flores, Edward Orozco.
Gods gangs : barrio ministry, masculinity, and gang recovery / Edward Orozco Flores.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4798-5009-9 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-4798-7812-3 (paper)
1. Hispanic American gangsCaliforniaLos Angeles. 2. Ex-gang membersRehabilitationCaliforniaLos Angeles. 3. Ex-gang membersServices forCaliforniaLos Angeles. 4. Church work with Hispanic AmericansCaliforniaLos Angeles. 5. Church and social problemsCaliforniaLos Angeles. 6. Hispanic American menCaliforniaLos AngelesSocial conditions. I. Title.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book could not have been possible without a great deal of personal and professional support from family, friends, and colleagues, all the way from California to Chicago. This book was a labor of love, each phase bringing me closer not only to academic truths, but also to the beauty that is found in having an ideal writing environment.
I will forever carry the memory of Victory Outreach and Homeboy Industries inspirational efforts. I was privileged to have been let into my respondents lives, and I wish there was some way to reciprocate and show my deepest appreciation. Over shared meals and small visits, they taught me how to be grateful for the most minimal of lifes gifts: homemade food, a simple prayer, or a big, warm handshake. These experiences blessed me with peace and joy as I engaged in the arduous, tedious, and tiring process of conducting research and writing. I was fortunate enough to have experienced a path of spiritual growth through academe.
I want to give thanks to several persons at the University of Southern California (USC). Immense gratitude goes to Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, who provided unwavering support, as well as expeditious and instructive feedback. In addition, Hernan Ramirez, Glenda Marisol Flores, Lata Murti, and Emir Estrada provided a lively and inclusive environment in which to entertain core ideas that now form this book. I am also thankful to Kristen Barber, for her insightful feedback, which helped me to develop more nuanced analyses of Latino masculinity. And lastly, I would like to thank the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation for a doctoral dissertation fellowship that allowed me to engage in data collection.
Just before the great leap from California to Chicago, I was met with an unexpected surprise. Dowell Myers, director of the Population Dynamics Research Group (PDRG) at USC, asked me to be his project manager for the summer. Little did I know that the work would not only be challenging, but exciting and rewarding, and that at the end of it I would have large U.S. Census and American Community Survey datasets ready and waiting to be used for this books demographic analysis. For this, I give thanks to Linda Lou, Hyojung Lee, and Anthony Guardado, fellow researchers at PDRG, for having helped with the construction of the data files.
I want to give thanks to colleagues at the Department of Sociology at Loyola University Chicago, as well. My department chair, Rhys Williams, structured a plan that worked well to help me finish a book as a new assistant professor. Several colleagues also provided an intellectually stimulating environment, critically examining a range of issues of inequality that made me much more ambitious in my aims: Tal Wright, David Embrick, and Kelly Moore. The religion working group, consisting of Rhys, Elfriede Wedam, Courtney Irby, Todd Fuist, Thomas Josephsohn, and Beth Dougherty, offered invaluable feedback concerning the themes embedded in this books focus on religion. As with all writing, however, any mistakes in this book are solely attributable to the author.
Endless thanks go to my immediate family for their social support. My parents, Maria Elena Orozco and Alberto Jimnez Flores, hail from la Sierraa rural, mountainous range in west-central Mexico that holds the substance from which myths are made. Their immense passion for learning and penchant for always finding new family stories to tell gave me the ideal background with which to enter into a Ph.D. program. They have an inexhaustible reservoir of oral history that always spills out at the dinner table, and as a result, I have been motivated to seek no other career but one dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. They have a Ph.D. in our familys history, and mine is in sociology.
I want to thank my siblings, Judy, Josh, and Hazel, who have given me a great deal of support throughout my life. Judy has shared her wisdom as the first to go to college, Josh has a talent for making my visits home seem like just any other day, and Hazel gives me joy when she says it is her goal to follow in my footsteps. And, I would also like to acknowledge the Padillas. The Padillas are known for finding great ways to celebrate, and they were the first to celebrate my book contract. Grandma Ramona, Grandpa Ed, Maggie, Jesus, Yolanda, Michael, Jesse, Krystal, Kiko, Kenya, Jamie, and Caroline all created a lively environment in which to take a break from work.
My final words of gratitude are reserved for my partner, Ana Maria Padilla. Ana shares a keen interest in social justice issues, and in the short span of a few years I have received much more fulfillment than I could have dreamed. We never tire of talking about her expertise (organizing and research) or of mine, of inspiring stories, or of our daily frustrations. Ana has supported me, immeasurably contributing to the development of this book, by enduring the most noble of all sacrifices: moving with an academic to a cold, far-away state. For this Ana, I owe you my support. In the words of a Mario Benedetti poem, you are mi amor mi cmplice y todo.
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