Book review: In search of respect by Philippe Bourgois
About the author
Philippe Bourgois is an experienced writer and researcher. He is also a professor and the chairman in the anthropology, history and social medicine department at the University of California. He mainly focuses his research on political mobilization of the ethnic communities in central and north America, political violence, labour relations in this region and the general life of the marginalized communities within America and especially the street families in the inner city dwellings of North America. He has also done research about the violence and the HIV prevalence in such dwellings, bringing out the suffering that is ...