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Title: In Search of Respect : Selling Crack in El Barrio by Philippe Bourgois, Mark Granovetter ISBN: 0-521-01711-4 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 23 December, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Experienced-
Comment: Buy this book ! Want to live on crack street for a couple of days? I have been to crack street and back. This book brings you right into El Barrio. Philippe the author moves into Harlem to study the crack culture. In reading his book, I felt as if I have met these people on the street before. The story is very sad - but oh so true.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Ethnography
Comment: I found this book to be one of the best I have ever read at exploring the tensions and struggles with living among, working with, and writing about poor, inner-city minorities. The book is relevant to, and I believe would be helpful to, social workers, educators, ethnographers/researchers, policy makers, and more. The author does an EXCELLENT job at making clear that there are not easy answers. In ways, of course, the people in the book are victims of poverty, of disenfranchisement, of racism.... But, as other reviewers have pointed out, they are also often violent people who take part in such awful acts as gang rape. How does that come together? As people who work in or write about such communities (or make laws that apply to those who live there) how can we understand these contradictions? What role can we play in that? What responsibility to the privileged of the US have to those who are severely underprivileged?
This book explores both the technical aspects of the underground economy, specifically crack, as well as the moral and ethical questions that surround it.
I did find that the book has shortcomings-- as other reviewers have expressed, I'm not sure how comfortable I was with some of the "takes" Bourgois has on some of the people and situations in the book. However, I believe that there is no perfect book out there, especially on such a difficult and complex topic, and that over all the book is very important in exploring and addressing the issues that surround inner-city life and, in particular, the drug trade.
Rating: 1
Summary: Perspective on Gang life
Comment: I found this book disturbing because the Author loses any chance of being objective. Instead of writing in a more realistic manner he chooses to glorify gang life. he compromises the information because before long he is caaught up in trying to fit into this particular group. The authors objective when writing this type of an anthropological look at this group is to try to live among this group and observe their way of life. I think most people are aware that poverty has a way of making people lose all hope for any future outside the barrio. This is not to say that it"s impossible but looking at it realistically one has to know that it extremely difficult, and that few are able to make it out to a "normal life". I expected more from this book. I think the author had a chance to observe in a objective manner, without allowing personal feelings to get in the way. Somehow the author was unable to this.
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Title: Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson ISBN: 0393320782 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cultural Anthropology: A Perspective on the Human Condition by Robert H. Lavenda, Emily A., 3rd Schultz ISBN: 0767418239 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 04 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $84.50 |
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Title: Applying Cultural Anthropology: An Introductory Reader by Aaron Podolefsky, Peter J. Brown, Robert H. Lavenda ISBN: 0072564253 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $37.65 |
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Title: Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier, Ovie Carter ISBN: 0374527253 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 20 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community by Elijah Anderson ISBN: 0226018164 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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