Authors: Philippe I. Bourgois
ISBN-13: 9780521017114, ISBN-10: 0521017114
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2002
Edition: 2nd Edition
This new edition brings this study of inner-city life up to date.
Anthropologist Bourgois chose "addicts, thieves, and [drug] dealers to be [his] best friends and acquaintances" during his three-and-one-half-year research residency in New York City's Spanish Harlem. This experience-packed account of social interactions and relations is the result of great amounts of time spent on the street, in crackhouses, and in the homes of East Harlem's residents, who are caught up in a constant struggle against personal powerlessness. A "wealth" of available drugs fosters major substance abuse that overlays and exacerbates the failure of individuals to overcome poverty and unsupportive if not outwardly antagonistic and racist power structures. Bourgois is not sanguine about the implementation of possible solutions to the not atypical plight of El Barrio's poverty-stricken (nonestablishment) people, who are too often self- or other-destructive in their often futile search for integrity. This look at a major inner-city problem is highly recommended for academic and larger public library social science collections.-Susanne W. Wood, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Alfred
Acknowledgments | ||
Preface to the 2003 Second Edition | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Violating Apartheid in the United States | 19 |
2 | A Street History of El Barrio | 48 |
3 | Crackhouse Management: Addiction, Discipline, and Dignity | 77 |
4 | "Goin' Legit": Disrespect and Resistance at Work | 114 |
5 | School Days: Learning to be a Better Criminal | 174 |
6 | Redrawing the Gender Line on the Street | 213 |
7 | Families and Children in Pain | 259 |
8 | Vulnerable Fathers | 287 |
9 | Conclusion | 318 |
Epilogue | 328 | |
Epilogue 2003 | 339 | |
Notes | 352 | |
Bibliography | 378 | |
Index | 393 |