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Review of Eight Ball Chicks
Dismissed by the police as mere adjuncts to or gofers for male gangs, girl
gang members are in fact often as emotionally closed off and dangerous
as their male counterparts. Carrying razor blades in their mouths and guns
in their jackets for defense, they initiate drive-by shootings, carry out car
jackings, stomp outsiders who stumble onto or dare to enter the
neighborhood, viciously retaliate against other gangs and ferociously
guard their home turf.
"Ain't nothing but a phase," says the mother of an Los Angeles gangbanger, a lanky teenage girl who laughingly tells of robberies, beatings, and shootings. Hard core stories and boastful posturing of gang members Shygirl, T. J., and Coco are at once compelling and sickening. Gini Sikes draws in the reader with striking phrases and lets these girls and women speak eloquently for themselves: why they got into la vida loca, how gangbanging circumscribes every life it touches, what it's like to grow up where rape, battering, and death by age 16 are shrugged off as unlucky flips of the coin; and whether they see any way out. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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