Philippe Bourgois

Published Books

Righteous Dopefiend

In Search of Respect

Violence in War and Peace

Violence at the Urban Margins

Ethnicity at Work (PDF available)

The Forgotten Children (PDF available)

Books in Translation

En busca de respeto

En quête de respect

Cercando rispetto

Banano, etnia y lucha social en Centro América (PDF available)

Reviews of Righteous Dopefiend

"Homeless Addicts' Fragile Lives" by Elijah Anderson. Philly2Philly.com, October 4, 2009.

“Righteous Dopefiend at the Penn Museum,” by Gerry Christopher Johnson. Philly2Philly.com, March 22, 2010.

"Made in USA," by Jason Morris. San Francisco Bay Guardian, August 19, 2009.

Utne Reader, July-August 2009.

San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 2009. Article by Kevin Fagan.

Zócalo (The Public Square Blog) June 18, 2009. Article by Monica Barra.

"Next Door But Invisible: The World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction." Youtube, September 22, 2009.

Slought (non-profit in collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania), 2009.

American Ethnography Quasimonthly, 2010.

"Between Night and Day: Exhibiting Homelessness in Ellensburg, WA."Centre for Imaginative Ethnography. Review of Traveling Exhibition from the Penn Museum.

"Righteous Dopefiend Exhibit Explores Addiction and Homelessness." Central Washington University, January 6, 2015.

"Experience the Crumbling World of a 'Righteous Dopefiend'." The Fix. Article by Zachary Siegel, February 19, 2015.

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