Papers by Laurie Kain Hart
Duke University Press eBooks, Nov 19, 2021
European History Quarterly, 2002
290 European History Quarterly Vol. 32 No. 2 by the angle from which most historians approached i... more 290 European History Quarterly Vol. 32 No. 2 by the angle from which most historians approached it over the years. Outside as well as in Greece the historiographical debate on Greek civil war was transformed into a battle between scholars of left and right. Their main concern in the period following the Truman doctrine (1947) was to attribute responsibility for the Greek civil war to their ideological rivals. In Greece, the same debate formed a historical problématique after the political restoration of 1974. Unfortunately, even then it would be ...
Peer-review journal. Commentary was solicited by journal in response to peer-reviewed article; co... more Peer-review journal. Commentary was solicited by journal in response to peer-reviewed article; commentary itself not peer reviewed except by editors of the journal and author. --author-supplied descriptio
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2018
Ritual, Emotion, Violence, 2018
But the niggacameinto mycell and [makinga punchingmotion]snuckme in the back of the head. Thenhes... more But the niggacameinto mycell and [makinga punchingmotion]snuckme in the back of the head. Thenhestood there lookin' at melike I wasn'tgonna' do nothin'.
Exhibit sponsored by Faculty Seminar at the Hurford Humanities Cente
Cocaine, 2021
Raffy, the bichote [Puerto Rican Spanglish double entendre for "big shot"/"drug boss"/large phall... more Raffy, the bichote [Puerto Rican Spanglish double entendre for "big shot"/"drug boss"/large phallus] is out on the corner to night and invites Tito and me to sit next to him on the stoop of an abandoned row home. Tito is Raffy's "caseworker," the local term for a bichote's second-in-command, who is responsible for managing the shifts of sellers and lookouts on a drug corner. Soon we are surrounded by half-a-dozen of his off-and-on-duty heroin and cocaine sellers, wannabe sellers, and teenage and pre-teenage bored kids. They are all eager-like me-to be around the big shot boss. When he shows up on the block, Raffy becomes the charismatic nexus for action, money, power, potential, and risk. Perhaps most importantly, he is also the only provider of local employment in this desolate, almost all Puerto Rican, formerly industrial inner city neighborhood. philippe bourgois, laurie kain hart, george karandinos, and fernando montero
PLOS ONE, 2019
Background The United States is experiencing a continuing crisis of gun violence, and economicall... more Background The United States is experiencing a continuing crisis of gun violence, and economically marginalized and racially segregated inner-city areas are among the most affected. To decrease this violence, public health interventions must engage with the complex social factors and structural drivers-especially with regard to the clandestine sale of narcotics-that have turned the neighborhood streets of specific vulnerable subgroups into concrete killing fields. Here we present a mixed-methods ethnographic and epidemiological assessment of narcotics-driven firearm violence in Philadelphia's impoverished, majority Puerto Rican neighborhoods. Methods Using an exploratory sequential study design, we formulated hypotheses about ethnic/racial vulnerability to violence, based on half a dozen years of intensive participant-observation ethnographic fieldwork. We subsequently tested them statistically, by combining geo-referenced incidents of narcotics-and firearm-related crime from the Philadelphia police department with census information representing race and poverty levels. We explored the racialized relationships between poverty, narcotics, and violence, melding ethnography, graphing, and Poisson regression.
Choice Reviews Online, 2004
L'Homme, 2016
© École des hautes études en sciences sociales AUDÉBUTde notre enquête de terrain dans la zone la... more © École des hautes études en sciences sociales AUDÉBUTde notre enquête de terrain dans la zone la plus pauvre du ghetto portoricain de Philadelphie, Congo, un dealer afro-américain charismatique, propriétaire d'un point de vente de drogue, s'était fait tuer par balles sur son perron, sous les yeux de sa famille, par le frère cadet de l'un de ses revendeurs. Il n'avait pas voulu payer la caution de ce dernier après son arrestation. Dans un quartier à plus de 80% portoricain, Congo faisait figure d'outsider, et il avait cultivé la réputation du caïd qui « aimait jouer avec les flingues ». Un de ses anciens employés se souvient : « Tout le monde savait que Congo était fou. Il laissait personne vendre dans le secteur. Une fois, des mecs faisaient leur business dans le coin d'à côté et Congo s'est ramené avec son gun : "Yo niggas ! Vous faites quoi là ?". Ils essayent de discuter [haussant la voix] : "Ah ouais ?! ". Mais Congo leur tire dessus direct, bom, bom, bom, bom, bom ! En plein jour ! Plus tard, un mec Dominicain a essayé de faire son deal en douce [on the DL], Congo est sorti en plein jour et l'a défoncé avec la crosse de son flingue. Ouais et… Congo était costaud. Je veux dire vraiment costaud. Donc les mecs ils savent. Ce mec est solide ». Congo avait commencé à travailler comme petit dealer de rue en s'installant dans le quartier à l'âge de dix-sept ans. Même s'il avait cette réputation d'avoir la gâchette facile, c'était plutôt son implication dans l'économie morale du quartier-un système d'obligations réciproques fondé sur des relations matrimoniales et de parenté-qui avait permis son ascension dans le circuit du narcotrafic local, cinq ans plus tard. Il était tombé amoureux de Julieta (la nièce de l'ancien boss portoricain, Leni), dont il avait adopté les deux jeunes enfants (leur père, un dealer portoricain, avait été assassiné dans un bar au cours d'une rixe quelques mois auparavant).
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