LEADER 04741nam 2200913Ia 450 001 9910785941803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-69592-8 010 $a0-520-95357-6 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520953574 035 $a(CKB)2670000000269191 035 $a(EBL)1046304 035 $a(OCoLC)817886219 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000756991 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11390435 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000756991 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10754712 035 $a(PQKB)10402593 035 $a(DE-B1597)518712 035 $a(OCoLC)1109203833 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520953574 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1046304 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10614250 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL400842 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1046304 035 $a(dli)HEB33911 035 $a(MiU) MIU01100000000000000001109 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000269191 100 $a20120611d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe stickup kids$b[electronic resource] $erace, drugs, violence, and the American dream /$fRandol Contreras 210 $aBerkeley, Calif. $cUniversity of California Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (303 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-27337-0 311 $a0-520-27338-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Rise of the South Bronx and Crack --$t2. Crack Days: Getting Paid --$t3. Rikers Island: Normalizing Violence --$t4. The New York Boys: Tail Enders of the Crack Era --$t5. Crack is Dead --$t6. The Girl --$t7. Getting the Shit --$t8. Drug Robbery Torture --$t9. Splitting the Profits --$t10. Living the Dream: Life after a Drug Robbery --$t11. Fallen Stars --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aRandol 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. 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. 517 3 $aRace, drugs, violence, and the American dream 606 $aYouth$xDrug use$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aDrug dealers$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aCocaine abuse$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aCities and towns$zNew York (State)$zNew York 610 $a1980s new york. 610 $aaids crisis. 610 $acrack-cocaine. 610 $adrug dealers. 610 $agang violence. 610 $agay activist. 610 $agay culture. 610 $agay rights. 610 $algbt history. 610 $algbtqia. 610 $aneighborhood friends. 610 $aparticipant observer. 610 $apolitical activism. 610 $asocial awareness. 610 $asociologist. 610 $asociology. 610 $asouth bronx. 610 $aviolence. 615 0$aYouth$xDrug use 615 0$aDrug dealers 615 0$aCocaine abuse 615 0$aCities and towns 676 $a363.4509747/275 700 $aContreras$b Randol$f1971-$01465570 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785941803321 996 $aThe stickup kids$93675666 997 $aUNINA