In search of respect

Description:

For the first time, an anthropologist has managed to gain the confianza and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods in the United States - East Harlem. For four years, the author had completely free rein to observe, tape-record, and photograph every facet of the lives of some two dozen Puerto Rican crack dealers. By presenting their crack-house conversations in context, he conveys in their own words the most intimate and taboo details of their personal lives: from violent crime and gang rape, to tender friendships and childhood dreams of glory and dignity.

subjects: African Americans,  Crack (Drug),  Drug traffic,  Drug use,  Economic conditions,  Hispanic Americans,  Informal sector (Economics),  Social Marginality,  Social conditions,  African americans, new york (state), new york,  Hispanic americans, social conditions,  African americans, social conditions,  Harlem (new york, n.y.), social conditions,  Marginality, social,  New york (n.y.), economic conditions,  Drug dealers,  Crack Cocaine,  Substance-Related Disorders,  Interpersonal Relations,  Illicit Drugs,  Socioeconomic Factors,  Social Alienation,  Hispanic or Latino,  Cocaine-Related Disorders

Places: East Harlem (New York, N.Y.),  New York,  New York (State)