Black Mafia: Ethnic Succession in Organized Crime First edition by Ianni, Francis A.J. published by Simon & Schuster Hardcover

by Francis A. Ianni

Black Mafia is a book about a new kind of Black Power--the takeover of crime operations and Puerto Rican "networks" that are systematically replacing the Italian "Families" whose syndicates once stretched unchallenged throughout the United States. The author has penetrated to the heart of organized crime and observed this "ethnic succession" taking place at first hand. From the men and women moving into positions of control--pimps and prostitutes, drug pushers, street runners, and the "silent partners," heads of illegal business operations--he has elicited the facts about the inner workings of this new wave in organized crime.

Genres: True Crime, History

Unknown Binding

First published May 31, 1974