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Crack - Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed (Paperback)
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Crack - Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed (Paperback)
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A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning
American historian David Farber, Crack tells the story of the young
men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine,
the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the
often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African
Americans caught in the crack cocaine underworld. Based on
interviews, archival research, judicial records, underground
videos, and prison memoirs, Crack explains why, in a
de-industrializing America in which market forces ruled and
entrepreneurial risk-taking was celebrated, the crack industry was
a lucrative enterprise for the 'Horatio Alger boys' of their place
and time. These young, predominately African American entrepreneurs
were profit-sharing partners in a deviant, criminal form of
economic globalization. Hip Hop artists often celebrated their
exploits but overwhelmingly, Americans - across racial lines -did
not. Crack takes a hard look at the dark side of late
twentieth-century capitalism.
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