Asian Gang Revisited

In her groundbreaking ethnography The Asian Gang, published in 2000, Claire Alexander explored the creation of Asian Muslim masculinities in South London. Set against the backdrop of the moral panic over ''Asian gangs'' in the mid-1990s, and based on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explored the idea of ''the gang'', friendships, and the role of ''brothers'' in the formation, performanc...