In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

Philippe Bourgois

ISBN 10: 0521017114 / ISBN 13: 9780521017114

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2002

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Synopsis:

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. 1/e hb ISBN (1996) 0-521-43518-8 1/e pb ISBN (1996) 0-521-57460-9

Book Description: This classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America , won acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. This new edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics in America in the 1990s that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem. 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2002
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Edition: 2nd Edition