In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences

Philippe Bourgois

432 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 stree...

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