Urban Fiction?

I read an explanation of Urban Fiction on another forum and it sounded very much like what I write except for the specifics of its particular ethnicity. My story follows the same format as what was outlined except it is about an Italian American neighborhood rather than African American culture. I'm looking for an agent but cannot find a fit. My 90,000 word story is more along the lines of a Scorsese movie than what what was depicted in the Urban Fiction definition. Any suggestions or advice?

Thanks for the reply. To answer your question I guess I'd choose books such as The Basketball Dairies by Jim Carrol and Wise Guy by Nicholas Pileggi, but actually closer to the movie Good Fellas because of the coming of age element. To Kill the Irishman, by Rick Porello, which by the way was the same setting for my story. It is similar to the movies Once Upon a Time in America, again with that growing up together into crime aspect like its film adaptation, and close to another movie, A Bronx Tale. My story is somewhat similar to Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra, or even along the same lines as The Raging Bull by Jake La Motta.
It's graphic, often with crude language depicting violent behavior, and laced with drug abuse and criminal activity of a segment of the Baby Boomer generation though set in an Italian American neighborhood.

thelastwordsmith said:

It's a crime novel. I think. Like the Godfather?

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Not really. The story is not about a single crime family, but rather outlines criminal activity other than lots of seemingly normal drug abuse embedded in the Woodstock era and beyond. It is fiction loosly based on personal experience using composite characters. It does have a romantic element as one of its principle themes, but could not be considered a romance novel. I'm stuck...