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UNINA9910785941803321 |
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Contreras Randol <1971-> |
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The stickup kids [[electronic resource] ] : race, drugs, violence, and the American dream / / Randol Contreras |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2012 |
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1-283-69592-8 |
0-520-95357-6 |
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1 online resource (303 p.) |
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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 |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The Rise of the South Bronx and Crack -- 2. Crack Days: Getting Paid -- 3. Rikers Island: Normalizing Violence -- 4. The New York Boys: Tail Enders of the Crack Era -- 5. Crack is Dead -- 6. The Girl -- 7. Getting the Shit -- 8. Drug Robbery Torture -- 9. Splitting the Profits -- 10. Living the Dream: Life after a Drug Robbery -- 11. Fallen Stars -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index |
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Randol Contreras came of age in the South Bronx during the 1980's, 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 unprecedented insider's look at the workings of a group of Dominican drug robbers. Known on the streets as "Stickup Kids," these men raided and brutally tortured drug dealers storing large amounts of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, and cash. As a participant observer, Randol Contreras offers both a personal and theoretical account for the rise of the Stickup Kids and their violence. He mainly focuses on the lives of neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. |
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The result is a stunning, vivid, on-the-ground ethnographic description of a drug robbery's violence, the drug market high life, the criminal life course, and the eventual pain and suffering experienced by the casualties of the Crack Era. Provocative and eye-opening, The Stickup Kids urges us to explore the ravages of the drug trade through weaving history, biography, social structure, and drug market forces. It offers a revelatory explanation for drug market violence by masterfully uncovering the hidden social forces that produce violent and self-destructive individuals. Part memoir, part penetrating analysis, this book is engaging, personal, deeply informed, and entirely absorbing. |
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UNINA9910791057103321 |
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Willis Ellen |
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The Essential Ellen Willis |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014 |
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1 online resource (545 pages) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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American essays |
Social science -- Popular culture |
Social science -- Women's studies |
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Cover; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: TRANSCENDENCE; The Sixties Up from Radicalism; INTRODUCTION; Up from Radicalism: A Feminist Journal (US Magazine, 1969); Dylan (Cheetah, 1967); The Cultural Revolution Saved from Drowning (The New Yorker, September 1969); Women and the Myth of Consumerism (Ramparts, 1970); Talk of the Town: Hearing (The New Yorker, February 1969); The Seventies Exile on Main Street; INTRODUCTION; Beginning to See the Light (Village Voice, 1977); Janis Joplin (The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll, 1980) |
Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life (Village Voice, May 1979)Memoirs of a Non-Prom Queen (Rolling Stone, August 1976); The Trial |
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of Arline Hunt (Rolling Stone, 1975); Abortion: Is a Woman a Person? (Village Voice, March and April 1979); Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography (Village Voice, October and November 1979); The Family: Love It or Leave It (Village Voice, September 1979); Tom Wolfe's Failed Optimism (Village Voice, 1977); The Velvet Underground (Stranded by Greil Marcus, 1979); Next Year in Jerusalem (Rolling Stone, April 1977); The Eighties Coming Down Again; INTRODUCTION |
Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution (Social Text, Fall 1982)Lust Horizons: Is the Women's Movement Pro-Sex? (Village Voice, June 1981); The Last Unmarried Person in America (Village Voice, July 1981); Teenage Sex: A Modesty Proposal (Village Voice, October 1986); Sisters under the Skin? Confronting Race and Sex (Village Voice Literary Supplement, June 1982); Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism (Social Text, Summer 1984); Escape from New York (Village Voice, July 1981); Coming Down Again: After the Age of Excess (Village Voice, January 1989) |
The Drug War: From Vision to Vice (Village Voice, April 1986)The Drug War: Hell No, I Won't Go (Village Voice, September 1989); The Diaper Manifesto: We Need a Child-Rearing Movement (Village Voice, July 1986); To Emma, with Love (Village Voice, December 1989); The Nineties Decade of Denial; INTRODUCTION; Selections from "Decade of Denial" (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000); Ending Poor People As We Know Them (Village Voice, December 1994); What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about The Bell Curve (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000); Rodney King's Revenge (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000) |
Million Man Mirage (Village Voice, November 1995)Monica and Barbara and Primal Concerns (New York Times, March 1999); Villains and Victims (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000); 'Tis Pity He's a Whore (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000); Is Motherhood Moonlighting? (Newsday, March 1991); Say It Loud: Out of Wedlock and Proud (Newsday, February 1994); Bring in the Noise (The Nation, April 1996); Intellectual Work in the Culture of Austerity (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000); The Aughts Our Politics, Ourselves; INTRODUCTION SPENCER ACKERMAN; Why I'm Not for Peace (Radical Society, April 2002) |
Confronting the Contradictions (Dissent, Summer 2003) |
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Out of the Vinyl Deeps, published in 2011, introduced a new generation to the incisive, witty, and merciless voice of Ellen Willis through her pioneering rock music criticism. In the years that followed, Willis's daring insights went beyond popular music, taking on such issues as pornography, religion, feminism, war, and drugs. The Essential Ellen Willis gathers writings that span forty years and are both deeply engaged with the times in which they were first published and yet remain fresh and relevant amid today's seemingly intractable political and cultural b |
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