In search of respect : selling crack in El Barrio / Philippe Bourgois.

By:

Bourgois, Philippe I, 1956-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Structural analysis in the social sciencesPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxiii, 407 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780521017114 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

363.45097471 BOU

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Contents:

Introduction -- Violating apartheid 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 -- Epilogue 2003.

Summary: 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 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, Tony, Candy - who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner-city drug trade.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	363.45097471 BOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K2700

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-392) and index.

Introduction --
Violating apartheid 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 --
Epilogue 2003.

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 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, Tony, Candy - who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner-city drug trade.

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