In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio Second Edition: 10 (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 10)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 2/20/2003
EAN 9780521017114, ISBN10: 0521017114
Paperback, 432 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
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.
Preface to the 2001 second edition
Introduction
1. Violating apartheid in the United States
2. A street history of El Barrio
3. Crackhouse management
addiction, discipline, and dignity
4. 'Goin' legit'
disrespect and resistance at work
5. School days
learning to be a better criminal
6. Redrawing the gender line on the street
7. Families and children in pain
8. Vulnerable fathers
9. Conclusion
Epilogue 2001.
'... rich interview and observational data is used to tell the stories of the residents ... It is clear that Bourgois is a very skilled ethnographer and the book is testimony to that.' Sociology