Righteous Dopefiend by Jeoffrey Shchonberg and Phillipe Bourgois

Sir Raymond Firth is famous for saying ethnographic journalism "makes exotics familiar and makes it familiar exotic". You are mainly heard that ethnologists and anthropologists go to other countries to learn interesting and unknown stories and are familiar with their culture and understanding. This is how we get used to exoticism. In our country, because we live around these people, they know that there is nothing to learn as they know, but we are involved and observe things in our backyard When you begin to do, you will see that you do not know something. .

Bourgowa was involved in the narcotic economy in this area due to the huge amount of information from dealers and their families. Most of the explanation in this book comes from a broken room near the Bulgian mansion. The cracking dealer community filtered by Bourgois came up with a convincing argument that reform is necessary in the economy to reduce violence in the heart of the United States. Burgowa says that people living in El Barrio have a strong community awareness

Bourgowa and his wife and children moved to an apartment building called East Haarlem in New York in 1985. For residents, this neighborhood is called "El Barrio". In order to carry out his research Burgow and his family lived in the harsh reality of slums for the next five years. Its purpose is to penetrate, absorb and participate in the daily work of the community as much as possible in order to better understand the situation faced by these poor and suffering Puerto Rican residents. Therefore, the ultimate goal is to enter the network of Puerto Rico's crack dealer network and its relatives and acquaintances.

An unwilling minority with caste (Kohl 1994, p. 2). A good example is a compelling choice dilemma facing the youths of Chicano and Puerto Rico. In Gibson (1989) and Bourgois (1991), students of Chicano and Puerto Rico who were working well at school were forcibly excluded by their colleagues, they were called "idiots" and their behavior was " It was white. " Nonetheless, not all immigrant groups can adapt to immigrant / voluntary minority categories. For immigrants in the Dominican Republic, Pessar (1987) noted that many of the first generation members of the group improved their living standards by pooling family resources, and they were satisfied with their work, He pointed out that they compared their lives. American life in the Dominican Republic But she wonders if the struggle of the first generation immigrants supports the parents' hopes for the second generation and realizes their own expectations for social and economic liquidity .