The Stickup Kids : Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream /

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"Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980s, a time when the community was devastated by cuts in social services, a rise in arson and abandonment, and the rise of crack-cocaine. For this riveting book, he returns to the South Bronx with a sociological eye and provides an u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Contreras, Randol, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2013.
Temas:
Youth > Drug use > New York (State) > New York.
Drug dealers > New York (State) > New York.
Cocaine abuse > New York (State) > New York.
Cities and towns > New York (State) > New York.
Trafiquants de drogues > New York (État) > New York.
Cocaïnomanie > New York (État) > New York.
Villes > New York (État) > New York.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Cities and towns
Cocaine abuse
Drug dealers
Youth > Drug use
New York (State) > New York
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Becoming stickup kids
  • The rise of the south Bronx and crack
  • Crack days : getting paid
  • Rikers island : normalizing violence
  • The New York boys : tail enders of the crack era
  • Crack is dead
  • Doing the stickup
  • The girl
  • Getting the shit
  • Drug robbery torture
  • Splitting the profits
  • Living the dream : life after a drug robbery
  • Todo Tiene Su final
  • Fallen stars
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index.

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