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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

First edition cover
Author	Philippe Bourgois
Cover artist	Susan Meiselas
Language	English
Subject	Crack cocaine, East Harlem
Published	Cambridge University Press (1995)
Publication place	United States
Pages	392 (1 ed.)
Awards	C. Wright Mills Award (1995) Margaret Mead Award (1997)
ISBN	978-0-521-43518-5
Dewey Decimal	363.450
LC Class	HV5810 .B68 1995
Text	In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio at Internet Archive

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

Analysis

Churchill 2005; Pickering 2019

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.

See also

• Street Corner Society, a 1943 book that engaged in similar ethnographic work
• Fist, Stick, Knife, Gun

References

Books

• Bourgois, Philippe I. (1995). In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43518-5.
  • Bourgois, Philippe I. (2006). In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511808562. ISBN 978-0-521-01711-4.
• Orum, Anthony M.; Johnstone, John W. C.; Riger, Stephanie (1999). "Field Research". Changing Societies: Essential Sociology for Our Times. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 43–47. ISBN 0-8476-9329-5 – via Internet Archive.
• DeKeseredy, Walter S. (2010). "Bourgois, Philippe: In Search of Respect". In Cullen, Francis T.; Wilcox, Pamela (eds.). Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory. SAGE Publications. pp. 103–105. doi:10.4135/9781412959193. ISBN 978-1-4129-5918-6.
• Binder, Beate; Färber, Alexa (2016-08-22). "Philippe Bourgois: In Search of Respect. Selling Crack in El Barrio". In Eckardt, Frank (ed.). Schlüsselwerke der Stadtforschung [Key Works in Urban Studies] (in German). Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS. pp. 317–334. doi:10.1007/978-3-658-10438-2_19. ISBN 978-3-658-10438-2.
• Bourgois, Philippe I. (2017). "Anthropology in Our Moment in History: Interview with Philippe Bourgois". In Brown, Nina; González, Laura Tubelle de; McIlwraith, Thomas (eds.). "Perspectives: An Open Invitation to Cultural Anthropology" (PDF) (Interview). Interviewed by Robert Borofsky. American Anthropological Association. pp. 457–462. ISBN 978-1-931303-55-2.
• Daynes, Sarah; Williams, Terry (2018). On Ethnography. Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-8559-5.
• Farber, David (2019). Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108349055. ISBN 978-1-108-34905-5.
• Howard, Tom; Nowak, Samuel; Jahn-Verri, Fernanda (2020). "Ethnographic Exchanges: On Philippe Bourgois's In Search of Respect". In Leitner, Helga; Peck, Jamie; Sheppard, Eric S. (eds.). Urban Studies Inside/Out: Theory, Method, Practice. SAGE Publications. pp. 143–153. ISBN 978-1-5264-3809-6.
• Alves, Ygor Diego Delgado; Pereira, Pedro Paulo Gomes (2021). "Anthropological Studies in Drug Use Contexts: An Introduction to Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Aspects". In De Micheli, Denise; Andrade, André Luiz Monezi; Reichert, Richard Alecsander; Silva, Eroy Aparecida da; Pinheiro, Bruno de Oliveira; Lopes, Fernanda Machado (eds.). Drugs and Human Behavior: Biopsychosocial Aspects of Psychotropic Substances Use. Cham: Springer. pp. 39–50. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-62855-0_3. ISBN 978-3-030-62854-3. S2CID 235840439.

Journal articles

• Holden, Constance (1989-12-15). "Street-Wise Crack Research". Science. 246 (4936): 1376–1381. doi:10.1126/science.2595359. ISSN 0036-8075.
• Miller, Jody (September 1996). "Crime and Oppression: Structure and Agency in the Inner City". Critical Criminology. 7 (2): 123–128. doi:10.1007/BF02461118. ISSN 1205-8629. S2CID 144050378.
• Venkatesh, Sudhir (November 1996). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Contemporary Sociology. 25 (6): 793–794. doi:10.2307/2077299. ISSN 0094-3061. JSTOR 2077299.
• Shannon, Charles (December 1996). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Anthropology & Education Quarterly. 27 (4): 625–626. doi:10.1525/aeq.1996.27.4.05x1156l. ISSN 0161-7761. JSTOR 3195788.
• Farrell, Amy; Horowitz, Ruth (February 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Gender & Society. 11 (1): 134–136. doi:10.1177/089124397011001013. ISSN 0891-2432. JSTOR 190234. S2CID 220470039.
• Venkatesh, Sudhir (April 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio, Wannabe: Gangs in Suburbs and Schools, and Ain't No Makin' It; Aspirations & Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood (Joint review)". New Community. 23 (2): 293–296. doi:10.1080/1369183X.1997.9976591. ISSN 1369-183X.
• Mason, Montimer (May 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Theoretical Criminology. 1 (2): 261–264. doi:10.1177/1362480697001002005. ISSN 1362-4806. S2CID 220337736.
• Smith, Robert C. (May 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Theoretical Criminology. 1 (2): 264–267. doi:10.1177/1362480697001002006. ISSN 1362-4806. S2CID 220341384.
• Foley, Douglas (June 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 3 (2): 377–378. doi:10.2307/3035026. ISSN 1359-0987. JSTOR 3035026. S2CID 145351259.
• Forst, Brian (1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Journal of Criminal Justice. 25 (2): 165–169. doi:10.1016/S0047-2352(96)00059-1. ISSN 0047-2352.
• Goel, Pradeep K. (June 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Social Science & Medicine. 44 (12): 1935. doi:10.1016/S0277-9536(97)86885-2. ISSN 0277-9536.
• Jefferson, Tony (Autumn 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". The British Journal of Criminology. 37 (4): 689–691. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a014206. ISSN 0007-0955. JSTOR 23638684.
• Lassalle, Yvonne M.; O'Dougherty, Maureen (Fall 1997). "In Search of Weeping Worlds: Economies of Agency and Politics of Representation in the Ethnography of Inequality". Radical History Review. 1997 (69): 243–260. doi:10.1215/01636545-1997-69-243. ISSN 0163-6545. EBSCOhost 9903252.
• Nugent, David (August 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". American Ethnologist. 24 (3): 685–687. doi:10.1525/ae.1997.24.3.685. ISSN 0094-0496. JSTOR 647105.
• Clatts, Michael C. (September 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 11 (3): 396–398. doi:10.1525/maq.1997.11.3.396. ISSN 0745-5194. JSTOR 649575.
• Decker, Scott H. (September 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". American Anthropologist. 99 (3): 678. ISSN 0002-7294. JSTOR 681801.
• Slavin, Willy (September 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. 7 (4): 326–328. doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1298(199709)7:4<326::AID-CASP413>3.0.CO;2-D. ISSN 1052-9284.
• Sullivan, Mercer L. (September 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Contemporary Drug Problems. 24 (3): 609–617. doi:10.1177/009145099702400310. ISSN 0091-4509. S2CID 141558813.
• Adler, Patricia A.; Adler, Peter (October 1997). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 20 (4): 868–869. doi:10.1080/01419870.1997.9993992. ISSN 1466-4356.
• Stoller, Paul (December 1997). "Cracking the Boundaries of Urban Life in the United States". Anthropology and Humanism. 22 (2). Society for Humanistic Anthropology: 205–206. doi:10.1525/ahu.1997.22.2.205. ISSN 1559-9167.
• Torres, Arlene (1998). "From Jibara to anthropologist: Puerto Rican ethnography and the politics of representation". Identities. 5 (1): 107–122. doi:10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962611. ISSN 1070-289X.
• Hawdon, James E. (March 1998). "Penetrating the Illegal Economy of Crack Dealing: A Review". Qualitative Sociology. 21 (1): 91–96. doi:10.1023/A:1022175426833. ISSN 0162-0436. S2CID 140791992. EBSCOhost 11302620.
• Pedraza, Pedro (1999). "In Search of Respect: A Community Insider's Review". Mind, Culture, and Activity. 6 (2): 166–168. doi:10.1080/10749039909524722. ISSN 1074-9039.
• Lau, Timm (2000). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Anthropos (in German). 95 (1): 241–242. ISSN 0257-9774. JSTOR 40465880.
• Luzzi, Mariana (2000). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Delito y Sociedad (in Spanish). 1 (14): 167–170. doi:10.14409/dys.v1i14.5844 (inactive 2023-12-12). ISSN 0328-0101. Retrieved 2023-12-10.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of December 2023 (link)
• Vasconcelos, Luís Almeida (November 2000). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Etnográfica (in Portuguese). 4 (2): 394–396. doi:10.4000/etnografica.3555. ISSN 0873-6561. S2CID 247909763.
• Diamond, Andrew (July 2001). "Rethinking Culture on the Streets: Agency, Masculinity, and Style in the American City". Journal of Urban History. 27 (5): 669–685. doi:10.1177/009614420102700507. ISSN 0096-1442. S2CID 143468113.
• Kerhuel, Antoine (October 2001). "En quête de respect : le crack à New York (Review)". Études (in French). 395: 421. doi:10.3917/etu.954.0409. ISSN 0014-1941.
• Binford, Leigh (June 2002). "Violence in El Salvador: A rejoinder to Philippe Bourgois's 'The power of violence in war and peace'". Ethnography. 3 (2): 201–219. doi:10.1177/1466138102003002004. ISSN 1466-1381. JSTOR 24047830. S2CID 145697027.
• Bourgois, Philippe I. (June 2002). "The Violence of Moral Binaries: Response to Leigh Binford". Ethnography. 3 (2): 221–231. doi:10.1177/1466138102003002005. ISSN 1466-1381. JSTOR 24047831. S2CID 144441809.
• Kokoreff, Michel (July 2002). "En quête de respect : le crack à New York (Review)". Revue française de sociologie (in French). 43 (3): 606–610. doi:10.2307/3322610. JSTOR 3322610.
• Gueye, Abdoulaye (2002). "En quête de respect : le crack à New York (Review)". Anthropologie et Sociétés (in French). 26 (2–3): 279–281. doi:10.7202/007071ar. ISSN 0702-8997.
• Bourgois, Philippe I. (March 2003). "correspondances new-yorkaises" [new york correspondence]. Vacarme (Interview) (24): 120–123. doi:10.3917/vaca.024.0120. ISSN 1253-2479.
• Jackall, Robert (June 2003). "What kind of order?". Criminal Justice Ethics. 22 (2). John Jay College of Criminal Justice: 54–66. doi:10.1080/0731129X.2003.9992152. ISSN 0731-129X. S2CID 143534846.
• Weber, Florence (February 2004). "Ethnographies urbaines : de Harlem à Gennevilliers" [Urban ethnographies: from Harlem to Gennevilliers]. Critique (in French) (680–681): 41–51. doi:10.3917/criti.680.0041. ISBN 978-2-7073-1863-3. ISSN 0011-1600.
• Vitellone, Nicole (October 2004). "Habitus and social suffering: Culture, addiction and the syringe". The Sociological Review. 52 (2): 129–147. doi:10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00528.x. ISSN 0038-0261. S2CID 142887739. EBSCOhost 62838513.
• Calvey, David (December 2004). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective (joint review)". Sociology. 38 (5): 1049–1051. doi:10.1177/0038038504047192. JSTOR 42856693.
• Churchill, Christian J. Jr. (Spring 2005). "Ethnography as Translation". Qualitative Sociology. 28 (1): 3–24. doi:10.1007/s11133-005-2628-9. ISSN 0162-0436. S2CID 143744138.
• Fraser, Suzanne; Valentine, Kylie (March 2005). "Gendered Ethnographies: Researching Drugs, Violence and Gender in New York". Australian Feminist Studies. 20 (46): 121–127. doi:10.1080/0816464042000334582. S2CID 214614526.
• Bourgois, Philippe I. (2012). "An anthropologist in unexpected places: An Interview with Philippe Bourgois". Kula Kula (Interview). 2. Interviewed by Johan Henrik Knutsen: 20–23. ISSN 1893-4633. PMC 4244812. PMID 25436019.
• Pickering, Lucy (July 2019). "Bourgois' 1995 classic In Search of Respect: A tale of three readings". Addiction. 114 (7): 1309–1312. doi:10.1111/add.14513. ISSN 0965-2140. PMID 31789438. S2CID 81441588.

Magazines

• "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Kirkus Reviews. No. 18. 1995-09-15. ISSN 1948-7428. ProQuest 917201452.
• Wood, Susanne W. (1995-11-15). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Library Journal. Vol. 120, no. 19. p. 90. ISSN 0363-0277. EBSCOhost 9511297647.
• Kamiya, Gary (1995-12-02). "Heart of Darkness". Salon. No. 2. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
• Shatz, Adam (1995-12-25). "Among the Dispossessed". The Nation. Vol. 261, no. 22. pp. 836–839. ISSN 0027-8378. EBSCOhost 9512222979.
• Robbins, Joel (1996-01-08). "The cul-de-sacs of crack". In These Times. Vol. 20, no. 4. pp. 30–31. ISSN 0160-5992. ProQuest 1962225411.
• Massing, Michael (February 1996). "Crime and Drugs: The New Myths". The New York Review of Books. Vol. 43, no. 2. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
• Bourgois, Philippe (1996-03-18). "Reviewers and Rorschachs". The Nation. Vol. 262, no. 11. pp. 2, 24. ISSN 0027-8378. EBSCOhost 14272518.
• Shatz, Adam (1996-03-18). "Shatz Replies". The Nation. Vol. 262, no. 11. p. 24. ISSN 0027-8378. EBSCOhost 14272518.
• Wellin (April 1996). "In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio (Review)". Choice Reviews Online. Vol. 33, no. 8. p. 1395. doi:10.5860/CHOICE.33-4805. ISSN 1523-8253. ProQuest 225885797. EBSCOhost 02763121.
• Gladwell, Malcolm (1996-07-04). "Lousy Fathers". London Review of Books. Vol. 18, no. 13. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
• Ruggerio, Vincenzo (1996-11-15). "The mean streets mirror". The Times Higher Education Supplement. No. 1254. p. 26. ISSN 0049-3929. ProQuest 2393271152.
• Robert, Didier (April 2003). "Un français de New York en visite à Paris : le « White Boy » de Harlem". Alter Ego, Le Journal (in French). No. 40. Aurore Association. pp. 8–9. ISSN 1770-4715. Retrieved 2023-12-14.

Newspaper articles

• Coughlin, Ellen K. (1995-12-08). "Understanding East Harlem's Culture". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Vol. 42, no. 15. pp. A8–A9, A16. ISSN 0009-5982. EBSCOhost 9601265657.
• Bernstein, Richard (1995-12-27). "Entering the Mind of a City's Young Drug Dealers". The New York Times. p. C19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-12-10 – via TimesMachine.
• Donaldson, Greg (1995-12-28). "Secrets From the Underground". The Washington Post. ISSN 2641-9599. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
• Valbrun, Marjorie (1995-12-31) [First published 1995-12-17 in The Philadelphia Inquirer]. "'Selling Crack' offers insight, doesn't trivialize". The Columbian. p. C9. Retrieved 2023-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
• Lezard, Nicholas (1997-01-23). "A crack in the ghetto". The Guardian. p. 15. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-12-10 – via Newspapers.com.
• McNamee, Gregory (1998-05-28). "Crack Shot". Tucson Weekly. p. 32. ISSN 0742-0692. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
• Marongiu, Jean-Baptiste (2001-04-05). "Crack street blues". Libération (in French). ISSN 0335-1793. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
• Birnbaum, Jean (2001-04-20). "Un « nègre blanc » au pays du crack". Le Monde (in French). ISSN 2021-4537. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
• Birnbaum, Jean (2001-06-29). "En quête de respect : le crack à New York (Review)". Le Monde des Livres (in French). ISSN 2021-4537. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
• Siddig, Exequiel (2010-08-22). "El paco de los vecinos de Wall Street" [The neighbors of Wall Street]. Miradas al Sur (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2010-08-27.
• Martín, Raquel San (2010-08-29). "Philippe Bourgois, la antropología como inmersión en mundos ajenos". La Nación (in Spanish). ISSN 0325-0946. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
• "Discovering why drug dealers and users are all victims of poverty". Irish Independent. 2018-10-01. ISSN 0021-1222. Retrieved 2023-12-10.

Websites and videos

• Bourgois, Philippe I. (2010-11-24). "In search of respect: an interview with Philippe Bourgois". anthropologyworks (Interview). Interviewed by Barbara Miller. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
• Bourgois, Philippe I. (2014-09-10). "World101x: Full interview with Philippe Bourgois". UQx World101x Anthropology of Current World Issues (Interview). Interviewed by Gerhard Hoffstaedter and Fern Thompsett. Retrieved 2023-12-10 – via YouTube.