Richie aka mozart is a talented graffiti artist struggling to rise above the gritty & dismal streets of south central la. After his brother loses his life to the hands of a vigilante gunman mozart knows he should walk away but this time it is personal...

Gangs are society's ultimate devil figure. They symbolize transgression and embody the deepest fears of middle-class citizens. Few filmmakers have dared or been able to get behind the headlines to confront the human reality and complexity of street gangs in urban America...

This text is uniquely realistic with comprehensive coverage that presents the problem in practical terms, and not in theoretical and/or causal explanations. All levels of students will be able to comprehend and relate to the material...

FUZZ ONE is the staggering, outrageous, true story of a raucous and wholly unsupervised childhood in the Bronx of the 1970s. Through Vincent Fedorchak's hilarious deadpan narration of a wild existence wrought with adolescent braggadocio, we are taken on a rough journey through a deteriorating Bronx jungle-wonderland where property value was plummeting and kids ruled the streets...

Cholo writing originally constitues the handstyle created by the Latino gangs in Los Angeles. It is probably the oldest form of the graffiti of names in the 20th century, with its own aesthetic, evident long before the East Coast appearance and the explosion in the early 1970s in Philadelphia and New York...