From Jibara to anthropologist: Puerto Rican ethnography and the politics of representation

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In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Philippe Bourgois. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. xvi+392 pp. $24.95 (doth), $15.95 (paper—revised edition 1996). Exposing Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race, and Class. Bonnie Urciuoli. Boulder: Westview Press, 1996. xiv+222 pp. $18.95 (paper). The Anthropology of Lower Income Urban Enclaves: The Case of East Harlem. Judith Freidenberg, ed. New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 749,1995. vii+287 pp. $45.00 (cloth and paper). Notes I want to thank my friends and colleagues for their insight and suggestions regarding this review essay. These include Pedro M. Hernández, William Kelleher, Yvonne Lassalle, Johanna Lessinger, Alejandro Lugo, Marvette Peréz, Mérida Rúa, and the students in Anthropology 269, Latinas and Latinos Challenging the Anthropological Landscape, at the University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign in the Fall of 1996.