In Search of Respect : Selling Crack in el Barrio

by Philippe Bourgois

• ISBN13: 9780521017114
• ISBN10: 0521017114
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-23
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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 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 people - Primo, Caesar, Luis, Tony, Candy - who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner-city drug trade.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xiii
Preface to the 2003 Second Edition	xvii
Introduction	1	(18)
Violating Apartheid in the United States	19	(29)
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)
Epilogue	328	(11)
Epilogue 2003	339	(13)
Notes	352	(26)
Bibliography	378	(15)
Index	393