An account of a sociology grad student enmeshing himself in a late 80s, early 90s Chicago housing project. Much of the narrative is centered around gangs and their day to day operations.

This has a ton of really rough reviews. It certainly doesn’t feel like a true sociological text. However, it was fascinating. The projects profiled in the book no longer exist, so there’s a bit of distance chronologically between the time of the narrative and the present day.

The title is extremely misleading. He followed around the gang members of this housing project for years. The one day stint he served was a very small slice of his experience.