| Titre | Résistance et autodestruction dans l'apartheid américain. | |
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| Auteur | Philippe Bourgeois. | |
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Revue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales |
| Numéro | no 120, décembre 1997 Violences. | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Violences. |
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| Résumé anglais | Resistance and self-destruction in apartheid America The American debate on inner-city poverty has veered towards personal value judgements loaded with racial connotations and suffused with puritan thinking Reacting to the accusatory-style of discourses justifying the persistence of urban poverty by hol ding the victim responsible liberal intellectuals commit the opposite error of glorifying the poor with the status of spotless victim This type of analysis consequently glosses over the des tructive power of American-style apartheid ignoring the mecha nisms that generate and reproduce the daily suffering of inner- city dwellers Analyzing data gathered over four years of participant observation in an East-Harlem Puertorican commu nity of crack-dealers the author sets out the details of everyday violence as well as the humiliating experiences of those seeking to participate in the legal job market The dealers drug-addicts and criminals frequented by the author manifest their opposition and resistance to exploitation and social exclusion by celebrating street culture thereby becoming the direct agents of their own | |
| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/arss_0335-5322_1997_num_120_1_3236 |
