ANTA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Black Market, Cultural Capital, Ethnography
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Lecture 11 (in search of respect: an overview of key a. Agency and structure is the main focus of bourgois. The crack dealers are victims of structure forces, but do not accept this passively. They struggle for respect against these forces by embracing street culture and underground economy. Way they push back against their victimization and marginalization. Turn to street culture and drug dealing in order to gain respect -> how they exercise agency. But they become agents of their own destruction and further oppression by doing so. Majority of people who bourgois were working with were puerto rican. Many of them were born with puerto rican american parents. Puerto ricans do not have a vote in the a vote in the us congress. Technically citizens of the us but do not have the same rights. Understanding various waves of immigration and migration into new york. Shift from being a puerto rican el barrio to a hispanic crack dealer.
