SOC 149 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Black Metropolis, Numbers Game, Extortion

• School: UC Riverside
• Department: Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies
• Course: SOC 149
• Professor: Jennifer Simmers

Document Summary

Pablo excolbar was making 600 bil a day. Riverside is the main place for meth in the country. Once singularity comes into effect you become comlacement. we have no rights. It was not believed that african americans participated in organized crime. it"s argued that. African-americans lacked the political associations and organizational skills necessary to participate in criminal activity on the same level as the once prominent italian american crime syndicates. The reason for the lack of a common understanding of african-american organized crime can best be attributed to the segregated nature of chicago"s black community during this period in history. (late 1800s and early 1900s) Belt grew to be the second largest negro city in the world; only new york"s harlem exceeded it in size. This analysis has shown that african-americans have always been part of organized crime in. Prior to wwii kept their crime involvement very quiet for fear of what people would think about them.