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Land of Opportunity: One Family's Quest for the American Dream in the Age of Crack.
・ISBN 978-0-472-03863-3 paper US$ 29.95
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| 著者・編者 | Adler, William M., |
|---|---|
| 出版社 | (The University of Michigan Press, US) |
| 出版年月 | 2021 |
| ページ数 | 394 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜A04-19612＞ |
解説
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.