Flyin' Cut Sleeves
FLYIN' CUT SLEEVES, completed in 1993, portrays street gang presidents in the Bronx. Their world was the streets, set against a backdrop of uprooted families, cultural alienation, drugs and violence. Neighborhood teenagers responded by organizing into street groups known to the members as "families", but labeled in the most alarming terms as violent gangs by the press. The documentation of these lives over a twenty-year period offers a remarkable perspective on life in the ghetto (spanning four generations), and the means that people devise to cope from the time that they are children to when they serve as parents and role models for a new generation.
Keywords:
Street gang
Swastika
Empowerment
Ghetto
Gang
Poverty
Revolutionary
Club
Bronx, new york city
Black spades
Unity
Boys club
Denim
Troubled youth
African american
Colors
Black
Urban survival
South bronx
Puerto rican
Community organizing
Tribalism
Gang vest
Savage nomads
Savage skulls
Young lords
Ghetto brothers
Seven immortals
Mongols
Denim gang vest
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