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Listening to What the Streets Say

Vengeance as Ideology?

    1. Ralph Cintron
             1. Department of Rhetoric at the University of Iowa

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   Based on 10 years of ethnographic fieldwork in Latino/a communities in
   northern Illinois, this article discusses violence and vengeance among
   mostly youths and gang members. Four points are made. First, violence
   and vengeance are attempts to establish order over escalating disorder.
   Vengeance often relies on a conviction regarding some higher moral
   order. Second, vengeance can operate as a kind of counter ideology when
   the values and beliefs of a legally based society seem hypocritical or
   unreliable. Third, when we consider vengeance as a kind of ideology, we
   acknowledge the power of language to create a sense of what is real.
   Moreover, we acknowledge that ideological language always hides
   something from view. In short, vengeance hides pain, fear, and other
   vulnerabilities that lie at the root of violence. Fourth, in
   acknowledging these roots, the possibility of another ideology begins
   to take shape, that is, trust.
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    1. doi: 10.1177/000271620056700104 The ANNALS of the American Academy
       of Political and Social Science January 2000 vol. 567 no. 1 42-53

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