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El Barrio Puerto Ricans
2,679 wordsEthnography in the City: Phillipe Bourgois and the Barrio Cities exist for many reasons and the diversity of urban form and function can be traced to the complex roles that cities perform. Cities serve as centers of storage, commerce, and industry. The agricultural surplus from the surrounding country hinterland is processed and distributed within the city. Urban areas have also developed around marketplaces, where imported goods from distant places could be exchanged for the local products. Thr...
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1,436 wordsSearch for Respect In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio was published in 1995. It is a straight forward, insiders look at life in the East Harlem neighborhood known as, El Barrio. Philippe Bourgois moved his family into El Barrio in 1985 to study the impact of imposed racial segregation and economic marginalization, on the inner city Puerto Rican population (intro pg. 1). He first went there to look at the entire (untaxed) underground economy, from baby sitting, off-track betting, to...
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