The stickup kids: race, drugs, violence, and the American dream

Stickup Kids encourages us to explore the embarrassment of drug trafficking by incorporating history, biography, social structure, and the power of the drug market. It provides an inspiring explanation for violence in the drug market by delicately clarifying the hidden social forces of individuals that cause violence and self-destruction. Part of the memoirs, part of the invasion analysis, this book is attractive, personal, profound and completely absorbed. "Stickup Kids is an exceptional wonderful piece.The complicated critical theory is smoothly woven through a crazy story about intimate personal experience.Contreras is a true organic intellectual, He is challenging an elitistic fieldwork style to analyze academic theory with a brand new voice.The rich and honesty, this work should be a classical ethnographic magazine in the city center of the United States "Philippe Burgos (Philippe Bourgois), author of 'Respect: Selling Cracks at El Barrio'

As an observer, Randol Contreras provided a personal and theoretical explanation of the emergence of Stickup Kids and its violent events. He focuses on the lives of neighboring friends, and once their opportunistic crack market opportunities disappear, they turn from cracking dealers into drug dealers. The result is an amazing, vibrant local ethnographic magazine explaining the ultimate pain and suffer experienced by drug robbery and violence, long-lived drug market, criminal life process, and cracked casualties.

Therefore, these stubborn children - children who do not go to prison or become dead when becoming adults - make money by violence rather than committing a crime like most men at the end of the 20th century I found a new opportunity. Contreras said that violence does not occur as badly or frequently as selling medicine on its own. Even when his subject tried to do business with the money earned by the robbery seller, there was a problem. Criminal records and commercial experience prevented most efforts to achieve honest lives. He called the theme of "Pablo" to set up a company, but he asked Contreras to play an important role and become a representative of the business. He is not satisfied with his speech. The business collapses, Pablo returns to drug trafficking