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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS In Search Of Respect by Philippe Bourgois
In Search of Respect Philippe Bourgoiss nowclassic ethnographic study of social marginalization in innercity 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 longterm friendship of streetlevel 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 innercity drug trade.