Selling Crack in El Barrio
Thisedition of Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America adds a prologue describing changes in the 1990s that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem. A new epilogue brings up to date the stories of the dealers and denizens who readers come to know.
Omschrijving
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.
Promotionele informatie
This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.
Productspecificaties
- Auteur: Philippe Bourgois (San Francisco State University)
- Serie: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
- Uitgever: Cambridge University Press
- Bindwijze: Trade paperback (US)
- Verschijningsdatum: 2002-12-23
- Aantal pagina's: 432
- ISBN: 9780521017114
- Thema: Drugs and alcohol: social aspects
- BISAC: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues
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