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In search of masculinityarticle 1996 • Bourgois, Philippe I.
Puerto Ricans (Mainland) • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This article is based on the ethnographic fieldwork of the author while residing next to a crack house in East Harlem, New York during the period of the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Burgois describes '…how the social and economic marginalization of...In search of respectBook 1996 • Bourgois, Philippe I.
Puerto Ricans (Mainland) • North America > Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
This work is a study of the experience of poverty, ethnic segregation, and economic marginalization in East Harlem, New York City. Bourgois describes the vast underground economy, ranging from curbside car repairing and baby sitting to unlicensed off...