Summary Of Cintron's Angels Town

Angels Town is an ethnography of a Latino community just outside Chicago where Cintron’s family lived while he was in graduate school. Cintron's sees everyday practices as rhetorical performances through which people struggle over identity and power. From this perspective, written and oral language are one more everyday social practice like the Thumper and Too Flow cars, gang hand signals, a young boy’s bedroom wall decorations and the layout of the city Cintron discusses. His interest in structured contentiousness leads him to organize his story around the question “How does one create respect under conditions of little or no respect?” Each chapters tells a story under conditions of individuals people struggling to construct identities and …show more content…
This is where Certeau enters the scene as Cintron spins a narrative of how graffiti used to “enact a degree of violence against another gang or to implicitly do so by celebrating the power of one’s own gang” (170). In addition, it is from the mainstreams cultural material that street gangs draw their meanings. Citron also admitted that he is no expert on gang activities. In my opinion, graffiti that are left behind in a public area and the monument that we see in our daily life its a work of art it has some meaning like any other kind of art. Each memorial consumes its own significance, just as the artwork of graffiti creator itself. I believe that the focal point of graffiti is more vague and the secret behind it are sacred to the member of the …show more content…
Her name was Arianna. Arianna was a nice, sweet, bubbly person with a great personality. Arianna and I meet in eighth grade we both had transfer the same time to Clifford School for different reasons. It was our first year to a new school and new environment we didn’t know anyone. Eventually we both had same classes together and once we started to talk to one another. We enjoyed each others company and spent time with each other in and out of school. She had younger sister and an older brother. Her brother went to different school and well her sisters went to Clifford as well, she wanted to be a role model to her younger sisters. Arianna had a hard past she didn't do good in school always skipped, got into fights and well she didn't care much about school at all. Arianna became a whole different person once she comes to Clifford. She wanted to make her mother proud and graduate and be a role model to her younger sisters. If you can put your mind to it you can make it anywhere in life. Arianna was a great friend and a great student but everything had changed when she had got in trouble at school. She stated to get trouble with some new girls (Kristina and Crystal) that also had transferred in the middle of the year. First, Arianna didn't worry much about it because it was almost the end of the school year and she was doing great in school. She didn't want nobody or anything ruin her