Essays on In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

Selling Crack in El Barrio is Bourgois Philippe’s tome on postmodern anthropology He seeks to analyse how social marginalization in the inner city of America affects the lives of people. An ethnography of the Puerto Rican drug dealers that he interacts with in Spanish East Harlem, also called El Barrio, gives an account of real life struggles under the branded apartheid culture and the economic hardships experienced all for the sake of earning respect. Bourgois attempts to bridge the colossal…...