In Search of Respect
Subtitle: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 23, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780521815628
Subjects: Drug addiction & substance abuse; Social & cultural anthropology; Social Science; Hispanic Americans; Sociology; New York; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Drug use; Crack (Drug); Drug traffic; New York (State)
First sentence: My research on the streets of Spanish Harlem almost came to a disastrous end just after the halfway point when I inadvertently "disrespected" Ray, the man who owned the crackhouses where I spent much of my time between 1985 and 1990.