“ ‘Ya Basta! – That’s enough!’ – Gangbanging and Protesting; an analysis of the Political Subculture of Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running”

Metcalf, Jo

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Still running: An interview with Luis J. Rodriguez (2015)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2015). Still running: An interview with Luis J. Rodriguez. MELUS : Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 40(2), 158-181. https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlv008

Book review of Michael P. Jeffries’s Paint the White House Black; Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America (2014)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2014). Book review of Michael P. Jeffries’s Paint the White House Black; Barack Obama and the Meaning of Race in America. Journal of American Studies, 48(2), 156. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021875814000589

Reviewing ‘Monsters'; the Press Reception and Media Constructions of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs (2012)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2012). Reviewing ‘Monsters'; the Press Reception and Media Constructions of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs. Crime, media, culture : an international journal, 8(3), 333-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659012443228

In 1993, a new trend of memoirs began to emerge in the United States, exploring contemporary street gang life in the ghettos and barrios. The first memoirs in this cycle form the subject of this paper: Sanyika Shakur's Monster and Luis Rodriguez's Al... Read More about Reviewing ‘Monsters'; the Press Reception and Media Constructions of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs.

Monster, Dreams, and Cultural Studies: Exploring Gang Memoir and Political Autobiography (2011)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2011). Monster, Dreams, and Cultural Studies: Exploring Gang Memoir and Political Autobiography. Journal of American Culture, 34(4), 391-401. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-734X.2011.00788.x

From rage to rap and prison to print: social, cultural and commercial contexts in the emergence of gang memoirs (2009)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2009). From rage to rap and prison to print: social, cultural and commercial contexts in the emergence of gang memoirs. European journal of American studies, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.4000/ejas.7651

“ ‘Ya Basta! – That’s enough!’ – Gangbanging and Protesting; an analysis of the Political Subculture of Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running” (2007)
Journal Article
Metcalf, J. (2007). “ ‘Ya Basta! – That’s enough!’ – Gangbanging and Protesting; an analysis of the Political Subculture of Luis J. Rodriguez’s Always Running”. US studies online : a forum for new writing, 10(Spring),