Philippe Bourgois presents new book Righteous Dopefiend
Posted by on June 29, 2009
Penn Professor
Philippe Bourgois
Tuesday, July 7 at 7:00 p.m.
Presenting:
Righteous Dopefiend
“Righteous Dopefiend” is an anthropological and photographic study of the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the United States. Co-authors Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed two dozen heroin addicts on the streets of San Francisco, resulting in a “photo-ethnography” featuring 64 of Schonberg’s black-and-white photographs embedded in a text that reveals racial boundaries and crossings, love stories, family relations, parenting, overburdened medical services and social service bureaucracies.
Bourgois is the Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology and Family and Community Medicine at Penn. His other publications include the award-winning “In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio” and “Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation.”
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