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    ‘I Was Certain I Saw My Future in Him’: Coming into Intergenerational Empathy and Escape in lê thi diem thuy’s The Gangster We Are All Looking For by Asha Jeffers

    Published 2022-09-01
    “…The 2003 novel by lê thi diem thuy, The Gangster We Are All Looking For, explores its unnamed narrator’s coming of age particularly through an exploration of her relationship with her father, both in terms of their actual interactions as well as her understanding of herself through her understanding of him, including the ways that she sees herself being or becoming him, both psychologically and physically. …”
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    The untouchables [digital video disc] / by De Palma, Brian

    Published 2004
    Subjects: “…Gangster films…”
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    Rappresentazioni di realtà ai margini di Oslo in Alle utlendinger har lukka gardiner di Maria Navarro Skaranger e Tante Ulrikkes vei di Zeshan Shakar: kebabnorsk, glocalità e gangster ‘wannabe’ by Edoardo Checcucci

    Published 2022-09-01
    Subjects: “…letteratura della postmigrazione; città satellite; kebabnorsk; glocalità; rap/hip hop; gangster wannabe…”
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    GANGS OF BRITAIN : THE GRIPPING TRUE STORIES OF THE FACES WHO RUN BRITAIN'S ORGANISED CRIME / by Clarkson, Wensley, author 644278

    Published 2008
    “…Today's gangsters are a far cry from their earlier counterparts. …”
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    The Peter pyramid will we aver get the point ? / by Peter, Laurence J., author 259128

    Published 1986
    “…"The Quotations and the ideas in this truly marvelous book are as fascinating as the variety of people quoted: generals, gangsters, statesmen, philosophers, holy men, and comedians. …”
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    The act of Killing y The look of silence – Brutality as a metaphor by Alba Giménez

    Published 2015-12-01
    “…Genocide has been considered as a triumph and the gangsters committing that murders, called ‘preman’ (free men), are nowadays an example for young militiamen of their country. …”
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    LIVE BY NIGHT / by 531621 Lehane, Dennis

    Published 2012
    “…By 1926, Prohibition has given rise to an endless network of underground distilleries, speakeasies, gangsters, and corrupt cops. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston Police captain, defies his proper upbringing and his father's strict law-and-order orthodoxy. …”
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    Playing the Numbers: The spurious promise of global trafficking statistics by David A. Feingold

    Published 2017-04-01
    “…‘Playing the numbers,’ ‘the numbers game,’ ‘the policy racket’: for those unfamiliar with American illegal lotteries and some of the legendary gangsters like Bumpy Johnson and Dutch Schultz that turned them into a major revenue stream for organised crime that still flourishes today, the concept was simple. …”
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    Growing Up Hmong American: Truancy Policy and Girls by MayKao Yangblongsua Hang

    Published 1997-12-01
    “…In 1994, 60 Minutes and the Atlantic Monthly portrayed Hmong and other Southeast Asian youth as gangsters, delinquents, and overall low achievers. …”
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