Multimedia Collection
Crips and Bloods: Made in America
DVD
83 min
2007
HV6439 .U7 L735 2007 DVD
With unprecedented access into the worlds of active gangs, Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a compelling, character-driven documentary which chronicles the decades-long cycle of destruction and despair that defines modern gang culture. From the genesis of LA's gang culture to the shocking, war-zone reality of daily life in the South L.A., the film traces the rise of the Crips and Bloods, and their bloody four-decades long feud. Contemporary and former gang members offer their street-level testimony providing a stark portrait of modern-day gang life: the turf wars and territorialism, the inter-gang hierarchy and family structure, the rules of behavior, the culture of guns, death and dishonor.
Throughout the film ex-gang members, gang intervention experts, writers, activists and academics analyze many of the issues that contribute to South LA's malaise: the erosion of identity that fuels the self-perpetuating legacy of black self-hatred, the disappearance of the African-American father and an almost pervasive prison culture in which today one out of every four black men will be imprisoned at some point in his life.
Finally the gang members themselves articulate their enduring dream of a better life. They provide a message of hope and a cautionary tale of redemption aimed at saving the lives of a new generation of kids, not just in South LA but anywhere in the world that gang violence exists.
Distributed by Bullfrog Films.
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