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UNITED STATES · 1964
The Cool World
Shirley Clarke
Synopsis
A fifteen-year-old boy wants to buy a gun from an adult racketeer named Priest, in order to become president of the gang to which he belongs, and to return them to active "bopping" (gang fighting) which has declined in Harlem.
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gang violence · youth crime · Harlem street culture · coming of age · power and masculinity
