Studs Lonigan

Studs Lonigan is the subject of a trilogy of novels by American author James T. Farrell: Young Lonigan, The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, and Judgment Day.

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In James T. Farrell's classic novel of Irish life, Studs Lonigan, Farrell describes gang participation in the 1919 race riots. Farrell's sympathetic and graphic protrayal of the growing up of the young gang member, Studs Lonigan, captures the split between the oppression of the Irish and their oppression of others, particularly African Americans. This excerpt, from the second novel of the Lonigan trilogy, "The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan" helps us understand the virulence of racism and how its unchecked rapacity helped produce and reproduce the ghetto.

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