ERIC Number: EJ429509
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Publication Date: 1991
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Everyday Life in Two High-Risk Neighborhoods: Growing Up.
Bourgois, Philippe
American Enterprise, v2 n3 p28-33 May-Jun 1991
The mainstream economy and culture are unable to compete with the money, respect, and identity that selling crack offers. The infiltration of organized crime and narco-dollars into the local economy, the inadequacy of entry-level wages, and the breakdown of basic public services have created a new kind of poverty. (CJS)
Descriptors: Community Problems, Crack, Drug Abuse, Ethnography, Poverty Areas, Structural Unemployment
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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