Book
In search of respect: selling crack in El Barrio
Cambridge University Press • Cambridge • Published In 1996 • Pages: xii, 392
By: Bourgois, Philippe I..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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-track betting and drug dealing, which provide a source of income for many of East Harlem's inner city inhabitants. Drug dealing, which is a symbol and symptom of the deeper dynamics of social marginalization and alienation, is given particular emphasis in this book. In an attempt to study this aspect of the inner city culture more throughly, the author, accompanied by his wife and child, moved to East Harlem, where he spent hundreds of nights on the streets and in crackhouses in the area observing dealers and addicts in operation. Several of these dealers Bourgois befriended and these served as his primary informants in his study of the drug culture. The data obtained from these informants, used in conjunction with his own field observations, serve as the basis of this study.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Life history materials
- Recreational and non-therapeutic drugs
- Labor supply and employment
- Illegal entertainment
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Household
- Family relationships
- Crime
- Alcoholism and drug addiction
- Delinquency
- Public assistance
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Puerto Ricans (Mainland)
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Regional, Ethnic and Diaspora Cultures
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- March 1985-September 1990
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- late 1980s - 1994
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- East Harlem, New York, N.Y., United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Philippe Bourgois
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-378) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 95005929
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Puerto Ricans--United States