How Long to Read The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs

How Long Does it Take to Read The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs?

It takes the average reader 4 hours to read The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs by Josephine Metcalf

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The publication of Sanyika Shakur’s Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member in 1993 generated a huge amount of excitement in literary circles—New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani deemed it a “shocking and galvanic book”—and set off a new publishing trend of gang memoirs in the 1990s. The memoirs showcased tales of violent confrontation and territorial belonging but also offered many of the first journalistic and autobiographical accounts of the much-mythologized gang subculture. In The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs, Josephine Metcalf focuses on...

How long is The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs?

The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs by Josephine Metcalf is 240 pages long, and a total of 60,000 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 27 minutes to read The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs aloud.

What Reading Level is The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs?

The Culture and Politics of Contemporary Street Gang Memoirs is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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