In search of respect
Subtitle: selling crack in El Barrio
By: Philippe Bourgois.
Series: Structural analysis in the social sciences
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Crack (Drug) -- New York (State) -- New York; Drug traffic -- New York (State) -- New York; Hispanic Americans -- Drug use -- New York (State) -- New York; Hispanic Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Drug use -- New York (State) -- New York; Informal sector (Economics) -- New York (State) -- New York; Marginality, Social -- New York (State) -- New York; East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Economic conditions; East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
Description: For the first time, an anthropologist has managed to gain the confianza and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods in the United States - East Harlem. For four years, the author had completely free rein to observe, tape-record, and photograph every facet of the lives of some two dozen Puerto Rican crack dealers.

By presenting their crack-house conversations in context, he conveys in their own words the most intimate and taboo details of their personal lives: from violent crime and gang rape, to tender friendships and childhood dreams of glory and dignity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-378) and index.