User:Freedom4U/Future articles/In Search of Respect

In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio is a 1995 book by anthropologist Philippe Bourgois. The book, a seminal work in the fields of anthropology, ethnography and criminology, details.

Background
Philippe Bourgois was born ___. Bourgois.

East Harlem (also called El Barrio) [historical background] ..

Research
Philippe Bourgois first moved to East Harlem in the Spring of 1985, intending to research poverty and ethnic segregation.


 * 1) Research shifted from injection drug users (IDUs) to users of other substances including crack cocaine.
 * 2) Bourgois publishes in the 1997 anthology Crack in America


 * 1) While living in an East Harlem tenement with his wife and and child, Bourgois conducted five years of fieldwork, getting to know "approximately two dozen" crack cocaine dealers and their families.
 * 2) during the height of the Crack epidemic in the United States
 * 3) Bourgois was frequently confronted by police, either on suspicion of being a drug user or for appearing to be lost
 * 4) Legal constraints were a constant concern
 * 5) His research significantly impacted his personal life, with the end of his research coinciding with the end of his marriage.

Summary
Introduction

"Violating Apartheid in the United States"

"A Street History of El Barrio"

"Crackhouse Management: Addiction, Discipline, and Dignity"

"'Goin' Legit': Disrespect and Resistance at Work"

"School Days: Learning to be a Better Criminal"

"Redrawing the Gender Line on the Street"

"Families and Children in Pain"

"Vulnerable Fathers"

Conclusion and epilogue

Publication history
A second edition with a new preface that ... was published in 2003.

Reception
Upon publication, In Search of Respect received mostly positive reviews in American and British academic journals. In Search of Respect won the 1995 C. Wright Mills Award in sociology and the 1997 Margaret Mead Award in anthropology. .

Description of the text
 * sensitive, in-depth.
 * Reviewers noted its rigorous treatment of "street patterns and attitudes"
 * Reviewers praised the book for marrying micro-level patterns with broader structural trends
 * Medical Anthropology Quarterly lauded the book for its detail and critical methodology, but was critical of its analytical strength.

Audience
 * policymakers, social scientists, journalists, and laypeople interested in urban American life.

Reviewers in Critical Criminology, Gender & Society, and New Community praised the book's handling of individual agency. Sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh, writing in Contemporary Sociology and New Community,.

Academic and non-academic reviews differed in their critiques of the book: reviews in academic journals largely based their critiques on epistemological or methodological qualms, while newspaper reviews based their critiques on the extent to which drug use and violence could be understood as an individual or social issue.

Positive
 * Nuanced relationship with individual agency
 * Social reproduction


 * Committed and skilled fieldwork with insights (x2)
 * Humanizing, empathetic, intimate
 * Doesn't fetishize

Negative
 * Too much interpretation; analysis is lacking
 * Gender

Legacy
In Search of Respect is. Philippe Bourgois continues to be one of the most cited anthropologists of the drug trade in the United States.