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Chargement... En quête de respect : Le crack à New York (1995)par Philippe Bourgois
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. After reading that excerpt in my anthropology class lo these many years ago, about Bourgois's confrontation with the crack dealer Ray, I admit I thought of this book as exotic - a travel narrative, a (sympathetic) "your correspondent among the Hottentots". Reading it, though, feels like peeling off a scab in a sense - takes you back to the old wounds of youth, which it feels good to expose to the air. In other words, Bourgois does us a great service in reminding us that East Harlem, for all its particularity, is also just like Esquimalt, or wherever you grew up, only with more institutionalized racism and the inequities of American late capitalism to boot. Are they damaged people? Sure, but so are we all. There's a wealth of ethnographic and sociological information here, and there's also a lesson: These are your friends and neighbours, or if they're not, it's probably because you're profiting off their exploitation somewhere along the line, intentionally or unintentionally. Love them. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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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 edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics in America that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the six years since the first edition. Bourgois, in 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This was a courageous and thoughtful attempt to gain insight into the question of structure versus agency in causing inner-city blight. The author moved to Spanish Harlem in the mid-90s and befriended a gang of crack dealers. The book is worth finding for chapter 4 alone, on the dealers' rancorous attempts to hold onto legal office work. Chapter 5 on their failed schooling and, shockingly, on the prevalence of gang-rape is also pretty essential, appalling reading.
The author shows how migration of large numbers of poor Puerto Ricans to New York City during a period of deindustrialization, combined with the rise of crack cocaine and the persistence of racial and cultural barriers, produced a generation of people shut out of dependable avenues for supporting themselves legally. In place of employment and self-respect, came dealing, aggression, poverty, sexual violence and a desperate yearning of the young men to make it big somehow.
The figures in the book could not overcome the structure they were born into, but we get little sense of how typical they were of the community as a whole. It would have been good to have heard from some people who did make it out: how did they overcome the barriers? ( )