PLOT: In jail Cochise turned his life around. He did a four-year apprenticeship and got his journeyperson’s papers as an offset lithographic press operator. Now that he is out, he wants to be a guidance councilor for the youth who are at risk at getting into the lifestyle. There are no more street gangs on the L.E.S., but they have been replaced by different kinds of associations, like the Bloods, the Crips and the Latin Kings, which can lead to going to prison and are national rather than just neighborhood. My interest is that Cochise continues making his art, since I would like to show his new work, and my hope is that he will write a book about L.E.S. street gangs. I would like to help him with this book project. ►more
►Jose "COCHISE" Quiles & Clayton Patterson: THE STREET GANGS OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE, SUBJECT: MEMOIR, AMERICAN HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY, New York 2016
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