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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.45097471
Fabric Type: 9780521017114
Fax Number: 2
Legal Disclaimer: 0521017114
Maximum Color Depth: Cambridge University Press
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Region Code: 432
Total External Bays Free: December 23, 2002
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Product Description:
Philippe Bourgois's ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim when it was first published in 1995. 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--East Harlem. This new edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the seven years since the first edition. In a new epilogue Bourgois brings up to date the stories of the people--Primo, Caesat, Luis, Tony, Candy--who readers come to know in this remarkable window onto the world of the inner city drug trade. Philippe Bourgois is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He has conducted fieldwork in Central America on ethnicity and social unrest and is the author of Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989). He is writing a book on homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco. 1/e hb ISBN (1996) 0-521-43518-8 1/e pb ISBN (1996) 0-521-57460-9
Book Description:
This classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America , won acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. This new edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics in America in the 1990s that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem. 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.
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This is my favorite book. I re-read it from time to time. I waited 10 years for Bourgeois to write another book like it, and I got my wish this year with Righteous Dopefiend (which did not disappoint). As a resident of New York and a recent resident of the South Bronx I was able to witness firsthand the injustices that happen daily to minorities.
If you liked Bourgeois' books, read Jonathan Kozol's books.
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I am reading this book for a sociology class and the book is wonderful... very fast shipping which was great! Thank you!
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A well written, well researched ethnography that reveals structural violence and apartheid in America. Easy to read even for non-social scientists.
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Rubber-necking is always tempting, but here are some reasons to keep driving and not read this book:
1) It's the equivalent of a foreigner writing about Jeffrey Dahmer's cannibalism and calling it "The Guide to American Culture."
2) Academics get to feel good about this tabloid story because Bourgois dresses it up in High Theory (no pun...well, maybe) and the right politics, but this is just scandal-mongering and airing of other people's dirty laundry.
3) The ... Read More
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great insight into street culture in a very poor area.Bourgois takes great strides to explain and put in perspective to the culture and motive for selling drugs in Harlem. recommended read for anybody in high school and older
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