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In Search of Respect : Selling Crack in el Barrio

ISBN: 9780521017114 | 0521017114
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 12/23/2002

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SummaryTable of Contents
This new edition 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.

Philippe Bourgois is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois... MORE
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Preface to the 2003 Second Editionxvii
Introduction1(18)
Violating Apartheid in the United States
19(29)
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A Street History of EI Barrio
48(29)
Crackhouse Management: Addiction, Discipline, and Dignity
77(37)
``Goin' Legit'': Disrespect and Resistance at Work
114(60)
School Days: Learning to be a Better Criminal
174(39)
Redrawing the Gender Line on the Street
213(46)
Families and Children in Pain
259(28)
Vulnerable Fathers
287(31)
Conclusion
318(10)
Epilogue328(11)
Epilogue 2003339(13)
Notes352(26)
Bibliography378(15)
Index393


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