Dorm Room Dealers: A Comparative Analysis

One might wonder wonder what is the experience like for a drug dealer on a college campus ? What type of incentives encourage college students to want to jeopardize their future in order to sell drug? How does one weigh out his or her chances of being caught? How are law enforcement responding to college students trafficking drugs into campus. In this paper, I will discuss two different cultures one being on campus and the other in the streets. When I say the the streets I’m referring to a high crime area in the United States. However, the audience will see how race and privilege correlates with one another.

Also, this paper will present evidence to readers about how to identify characteristics of each cultures. Readers will be able to see the effect drugs have on a college campus and the streets. There are two books this paper will focus which are, “In search of Respect by Phillippe Bourgois,” and “Dorm Room Dealers by A. Rafik Mohamed and Erik D. Fritsvold.” In essence this paper will compare the similarities and differences between the two different books. However, in the novel In search of Respect by Phillippe
Depicting different aspects of why East Harlem’s underground economy really exist and demonstrates how residents tend to survive. However, East Harlem is an impoverished community where crime rates and unemployment