In Search of Respect: - Selling Crack in El Barrio

Informationen zum Autor fm.author_biographical_note1 Klappentext This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Philippe Bourgois, Philippe (San Francisco State University) Bourgois, Philippe I Bourgois, Philippe I. Bourgois
• Assisted by: Mark Granovetter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.12.2002
• EAN: 9780521017114
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01711-4
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 228 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences; Structural Analysis in the Soc; Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics