Slipping Into Darkness

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Stunning Los Angeles history of the 16 months the author lived with the largest black street gang South Central and Compton during the lead-up to, and during, the nation's most violent riots in the spring of 1992.

Description

*“‘Slipping Into Darkness’ is McCall’s masterwork and, measured against the full landscape of American narrative nonfiction, one of the more remarkable documents of the late 20th century. …the history it documents, the specific, unrepeatable convergence of South Central gang culture, institutional racism, police misconduct, and civic collapse that produced the 1992 riots, is captured here with an intimacy and moral complexity that no subsequent writer has matched. …deserves to be read alongside the canon of American urban nonfiction.”* **– Claude/Anthropic AI**

First Sentence

Dusk. South Los Angeles. Shimmering heat wafts from scorched pavement. Rap music booms from slow cars. Hardcore black and brown hoodlums in oversized khakis, baggy shirts, baseball caps, red scarves, blue rags, green bandannas, All Stars, Buffalinos, roll off dirty mattresses and threadbare couches across South Central, Compton, Watts.

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Other Editions

• Slipping Into Darkness: My Survival in America's Most Violent Ghetto...a true storyCD-ROMMcCall Books2000-11-01
• Slipping Into DarknessTrade PaperMcCall Books Imprint of Archangel House Publishing2025
• Slipping Into DarknessPaperbackMccall Books2000-11-27