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In Search of Respect - Selling Crack in El Barrio

Paperback • 2003

In Search of Respect - Selling Crack in El Barrio

By Philippe Bourgois

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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 Am...Show more

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9780521815628

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2003

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In Search of Respect - Selling Crack in El Barrio

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