Notes From the Crack Trade

摘要

In the 2005 best seller "Freakonomics," sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh inspired a chapter about why crack dealers live at home with their moms. The chapter was based on seven years Venkatesh spent trailing actual dealers. As a first-year graduate student, he walked into a notorious Chicago drug den, clipboard in hand, and asked: "How does it feel to be black and poor?"