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"Crimes of Style is excellent sociology, fascinating ethnography, and compelling anarchist criminology." —Criminologist
The groundbreaking study of graffiti artists and their complex system of stylistic meanings, status games, and specialized vocabulary.
Jeff Ferrell draws on his own extensive field research to thoroughly examine the practices of graffiti artists. Focusing on the city of Denver, he takes a close look at the war against graffiti and the interplay between cultural innovation and institutionalized intolerance, arguing that coordinated corporate and political campaigns to suppress and criminalize graffiti writers further disenfranchises the young, the poor, and people of color.
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