crackhouse
...lower cost than pure cocaine. Crackhouse introduces readers into the daily lives of crack-users that can be found on any street corner. Williams was able to create this detailed portrait through ethnography, which involves observing people in their own settings. It represents the social reality of others through the analysis of one’s own experience in the world of these others. Basically, Williams captured the crack-users culture, or their total way of life. He gathered all of their knowledge, and allows the reader to visualize and understand the drug addict’s values, norms and goals. Terry Williams searched around New York City to find the perfect crackhouse where people come to purchase crack, cocaine powder, or freebase. He stumbled upon a specific one in West Spanish Harlem that had a group of crackheads, or a compulsive user of crack-cocaine or freebase. It is almost as though there is ...