8 Ball Chicks by Gini SikesMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
The author embeds with female gang members and their larger gang and non-gang associates to go as far as she can (short of being present at crimes) to report on the activities, motivation and challenges of female gang members in LA, San Antonio, and Milwaukee. In LA it is a world matured since 60s zoot suit riot days, etc. while at stages of unacknowledged maturity in Milwaukee and a latent, emergent threat to the community in San Antonio. Gini gets very closes, as in friendship close, to some of her subjects and her close reportage with little fact checking or big picture makes for compelling, personalized reading (these miscreants and survivors are real people) obviously suggests issues of the impact of researcher involvement. Are they just talking and acting big because a journalist is in the room? What if they did not know they were being observed?
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