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Describes the day-to-day experience of a teenage cocaine culture in Spanish Harlem and explores the fiscally motivated sale of cocaine by teenagers and the unlikelihood of a change until other roads to opportunity are made available.
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Since 1982, sociologist Terry Williams has spent days, weeks, and months ?hanging out” with a teenage cocaine ring in cocaine bars, after-hours clubs, on street corners, in crack houses and in their homes. The picture he creates in The Cocaine Kids is the story behind the headlines. The lives of these young dealers in the fast lane of the underground economy emerge in depth and color on the pages of this book.
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