Title Righteous dopefiend / Philippe Bourgois, Jeff Schonberg

Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (359 pages) : illustrations Series California series in public anthropology ; 21 California series in public anthropology ; 21. Contents Introduction: a theory of abuse -- Intimate apartheid -- Falling in love -- A community of addicted bodies -- Childhoods -- Making money -- Parenting -- Male love -- Everyday addicts -- Treatment -- Conclusion: critically applied public anthropology Summary This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as they scrambled to generate income through burglary, panhandling, recycling, and day labor. Righteous Dopefiend interweaves stunning black-and-white photographs with vivid dialogue, detailed field notes, and critical theoretical analysis. Its gripping narrative develops a cast of characters around the themes of violence, race relations, sexuality, family trauma, embodied suffering, social inequality, and power relations. The result is a dispassionate chronicle of survival, loss, caring, and hope rooted in the addicts' determination to hang on for one more day and one more "fix" through a "moral economy of sharing" that precariously balances mutual solidarity and interpersonal betrayal Analysis addiction betrayal biography black and white photography burglary dialogue dispassionate chronicle drug abusers drug and alcohol abuse gonzo journalism gripping narrative heroin homeless human survival inequality larceny life of a drug addict memoir opioid epidemic overdose panhandling race relations racism san francisco drug scene sexuality solidarity suffering theoretical analysis trauma treatment of addicts vicious cycle violence Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd Subject Drug addicts -- United States -- Social conditions Drug addicts -- United States -- Economic conditions Homeless persons -- Drug use -- United States Marginality, Social -- United States Alienation (Social psychology) Drug Users -- psychology Drug Users -- economics Ill-Housed Persons Social Alienation BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- People with Disabilities. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Alienation (Social psychology) Drug addicts -- Economic conditions Drug addicts -- Social conditions Homeless persons -- Drug use Marginality, Social Drogenabhängiger Narkomaner -- Förenta staterna. Hemlösa -- drogvanor -- Förenta staterna. Socialt utstötta -- Förenta staterna. SUBJECT United States Subject United States USA Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book Author Schonberg, Jeff, 1967- LC no. 2007050924 ISBN 9780520943315 0520943317 9781283291750 1283291754 9786613291752 6613291757

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