Land of opportunity: one family's quest for the American dream in the age of crack
"Part true crime, part work of urban sociology, Land of Opportunity is a meticulously researched account of the rise and fall of the Chambers brothers, who ran a multi-million-dollar crack cocaine operation in Detroit in the 1980s. Descended from Arkansas sharecroppers, BJ, Larry, and Willie Ch...
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of Michigan Press
2021
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| Ausgabe: | New edition |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Part true crime, part work of urban sociology, Land of Opportunity is a meticulously researched account of the rise and fall of the Chambers brothers, who ran a multi-million-dollar crack cocaine operation in Detroit in the 1980s. Descended from Arkansas sharecroppers, BJ, Larry, and Willie Chambers moved to Detroit seeking economic opportunity, and built a successful drug empire by applying strict business principles to their trade; their business grossed an estimated $55 million annually until the brothers were sent to prison in 1989. Reading the Chambers brothers in the context of the fall of the Detroit auto-industry and its impact on the city's economy and residents, Land of Opportunity demonstrates how for the Chambers brothers, crack dealing was a rational career choice; and through the Chambers brothers' story, Adler provides bottom-up history of late Second Great Migration, deindustrialization, the War on Drugs, and crack era in both Detroit and the United States."--Publisher website |
| Beschreibung: | Original edition published by Atlantic Monthly Press in 1995 "With a new afterword by the author"--Cover |
| Beschreibung: | xxiii, 369 Seiten 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780472038633 047203863X |
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