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1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 27 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Todd McLaren. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Chambers Brothers (Gang)
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Drug dealers -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
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Drug traffic -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.
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Crack (Drug) -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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Detroit (Mich.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Detroit (Mich.) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Mclaren, Todd.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666119015 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666119016 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14586246 |
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