IN SEARCH OF RESPECT BOURGOIS P. Księgarnia

In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgoiss 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 new 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 peopl Primo, Caesar, Luis, Tony, Candy who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner city drug trade.

New prologue and epilogue bring this story up to date
Eyewitness account of violence, crime, substance abuse, sexual abuse, domestic strife, and family crisis in the ghetto
Theoretical discussion of the intersection of race, class, gender, individual responsibility, and social structural constraints in creating the problems of the inner city

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.

466 pages

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IN SEARCH OF RESPECT

BOURGOIS P.

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