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Abstract

An oddly moving study of lives brutalized by drug addiction, poverty, crime, and ineluctable violence. First-time author Bourgois (Anthropology/San Francisco State Univ.) spent five years in a Puerto Rican barrio in East Harlem studying the culture of crack cocaine ...

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Title
IN SEARCH OF RESPECT
Publication year
1995
Publication date
Sep 15, 1995
Publisher
Kirkus Media LLC
ISSN
19487428
Source type
Trade Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
917201452
Copyright
Copyright 2012, Kirkus Reviews. All rights reserved.