In Search of Respect
Selling Crack in El Barrio
2nd Edition
Part of Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
- Author: Philippe Bourgois, San Francisco State University
- Date Published: February 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521017114
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In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods in the United States - East Harlem. This edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics in America that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the six years since the first edition. Bourgois, in a new epilogue, brings up to date the stories of the people - Primo, Caesar, Luis, Tony, Candy - who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner-city drug trade.
Read more- New prologue and epilogue bring this story up to date
- Eyewitness account of violence, crime, substance abuse, sexual abuse, domestic strife, and family crisis in the ghetto
- Theoretical discussion of the intersection of race, class, gender, individual responsibility, and social structural constraints in creating the problems of the inner city
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'… rich interview and observational data is used to tell the stories of the residents … It is clear that Bourgois is a very skilled ethnographer and the book is testimony to that.' Sociology
See more reviews'… an impressive book. The beautifully written and well organised ethnography gives an insight into the drug scene culture with its harsh and shocking details of violence. … a masterpiece of ethnographic description …' Medische Anthropologie
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- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: February 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521017114
- length: 432 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.7kg
- contains: 16 b/w illus. 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface to the 2001 second edition
Introduction
1. Violating apartheid in the United States
2. A street history of El Barrio
3. Crackhouse management: addiction, discipline, and dignity
4. 'Goin' legit': disrespect and resistance at work
5. School days: learning to be a better criminal
6. Redrawing the gender line on the street
7. Families and children in pain
8. Vulnerable fathers
9. Conclusion
Epilogue 2001.
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