In search of respect
Subtitle: selling crack in El Barrio
By: Philippe Bourgois.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: Structural analysis in the social sciences
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
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: (Publisher-supplied data) Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim when it was first published in 1995. 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--East Harlem. This new edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the seven years since the first edition. In a new epilogue Bourgois brings up to date the stories of the people--Primo, Caesat, Luis, Tony, Candy--who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner city drug trade. Philippe Bourgois is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has conducted fieldwork in Central America on ethnicity and social unrest and is the author of Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). He is writing a book on homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-392) and index.