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| In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) (Paperback)
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Edition: 2
Author: Philippe Bourgois, Mark Granovetter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2002-12-23
ISBN-10: 0521017114
ISBN-13: 9780521017114
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Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): club crackhouse, public sector breakdown, legal labor market, adopted grandfather, project apartment, legal economy, crack economy, bullshit job, sniffing cocaine, street culture, crack dealers, powder cocaine, social marginalization, pregnant addicts, crack vials, fieldwork notes, legal employment, underground economy, more cocaine
Entertaining, interesting, and educational
| Customer Rating: | I really enjoyed reading this book. I was looking for a break from the norm, something non-fiction, and this more than filled the bill.
In the chapter entitled 'Conclusion' the author states that his "most immediate goal in this book is to humanize the public enemies of the United States without sanitizing or glamorizing them."
Given this goal, Philippe Bourgois hit the nail on the head, and went above and beyond every expectation that I had initially.
I particularly enjoyed the transcripts of the tape recorded conversations that were present in the book. Not only did these transcripts offer an insight into the thought processes of the characters, but it also offered great insight into how people live their lives in East Harlem.
The most interesting part of this book was the analysis of how social and economic factors shaped the underground drug trafficking community.
This is a great book that will keep you interested the entire way through. I would recommend this book to almost anyone without hesitation. |
Life Among Crack Dealers in the 80's
| Customer Rating: | This is a great book on inner city life...From an academic point of view it shines as well...The author is a great writer and a keen observer...I like the way he started it out as an ECONOMIC "study" and it melded into an urban anthropology study....This guy was there!! INSIDE!!..I would recommend reading this book along with Monster by Monster Kody....Between those 2 books you really get a feel what life was like in urban 1980's
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member |
Good and Enlightening Read
| Customer Rating: | | This is a great book. Definitely disturbing but well worth the read. Bourgois does an excellent job of honestly portraying the lives of these people while still letting the reader know that he is human and sometimes has a difficult time being unbiased. Highly recommend this book. |
Well Written Account of Urban Life.
| Customer Rating: | | I read this book as a junior Sociology major at Berkeley. This book makes me want to quit my day job and go back to school to explore academia again. Highly inspirational anthropological account of growing up impoverished in NY and selling crack to make ends meet. Like many people, I do not support drugs in any way as it contributes to the decline of families and communities, but I love how this book guides you through the intricacies of street (drug) life with a nice layer of dignity and integrity. |
The ugly truth
| Customer Rating: | | This book is well written, throughly researched and extremely enlightening. It is the best ethnography i have read. Unlike some "liberals" who write about the poor (e.g. Kozol), Bourgois lived among the people he writes about, and he is not afraid to show the less flattering aspects of their personalities. Thus, there are passages that will make some people cringe, others that are frankly disturbing, but it is all part of the ugly reality of life in the ghetto. Bourgois lets the residents speak in their own voices and provides useful commentary rather than "cultural marxist" analysis as some reviewer suggested. In Search of Respect shows that simplistic explanations for the persistance of poverty ("bad choices") are unsatisfactory, but does not ignore the fact that some poor people commit stupid and also brutal acts. This is a great book for use in upper level undergraduate courses in social problems, deviance, criminology, ethnography, qualitative methods, juvenile delinquency. |
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