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1. 1. Ballad Of The Bullet

   

   A sympathetic, deeply reported ethnography based on years of immersion on Chicago’s South Side that follows young men involved in gangs and drill music, showing how street violence, online platforms, and reputational economies are intertwined. The book traces how drill music and social media amplify feuds, create incentives for risk-taking, and produce a logic of honor and infamy against a backdrop of poverty, policing, and scarce opportunities. Through intimate portraits and careful analysis, it situates individual choices within larger structural forces and challenges simplistic narratives about criminality, revealing how public attention and digital circulation shape both harm and survival.

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