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UNINA9910967443503321 |
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Autore |
Contreras Randol <1971-> |
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Titolo |
The stickup kids : race, drugs, violence, and the American dream / / Randol Contreras |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2012 |
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9781283695923 |
1283695928 |
9780520953574 |
0520953576 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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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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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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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 |
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neighborhood friends, who went from being crack dealers to drug robbers once their lucrative crack market opportunities disappeared. 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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UNINA9910150501703321 |
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Autore |
Avant Katrina |
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Titolo |
O Segredo de Sienna |
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Fargo : , : KATRINA'SWORKS, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (77 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Family secrets |
Inheritance and succession |
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Materiale a stampa |
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