In Search of Respect Selling Crack in el Barrio

Name: In Search of Respect Selling Crack in el Barrio
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ISBN: 9780521017114

ISBN-10: 0521017114

ISBN-13: 9780521017114

Edition: 2nd 2002 (Revised)

Authors: Philippe I. Bourgois, Mark Granovetter

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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 new 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,…

Book details

List price: $34.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/23/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface to the 2001 second edition


Introduction



Violating a Partheid in the United States



A street history of El Barrio



Crackhouse management: addiction, discipline, and dignity



'Goin' legit': disrespect and resistance at work



School days: learning to be a better criminal



Redrawing the gender line on the street



Families and children in pain



Vulnerable fathers



Conclusion;


Epilogue 2001