Cocaine Kids Case Study

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The Cocaine Kids and Dorm Room Dealers are two very different, but yet similar books. Cocaine Kids are about a group of kids, primarily of Hispanic race, with one kid of the Black race. The kids were raised in the inner city of New York. Dorm Room Dealers are about White, middle to upper-middle class college students, who was selling drugs for their status. The purpose of this paper is to prove that there are racial disparities among drug users. There will be examples from the texts that show the different takes on the drug markets and how race plays a factor. There also will be how these experiences shape the kids drug dealing and using. The paper will conclude how all the kids either remained in the drug career or left the drug career. The Cocaine Kids are about kids of New York, cocaine, and the way these kids do illegal business within their impoverished towns. There were drastic changes in the cocaine trade; from the preferred method of use, the value, to the ways it was prepared and distributed to the clients. The cocaine industry went from trying the cocaine before purchasing it, to it being prepackaged to make it simple and avoid arguments. The kids set up a crew of individuals who thought they would consider as trustful individuals. The …show more content…

The drug dealing process went from distributors, who were the Colombians; the supplier who was Max; and the dealers who were all of the other drug dealers that helped with the cocaine industry. The drug dealers were situated in Washington Heights, which was an area known as the “hot spot” for the war on drugs. The crew learned how to make quick money, and ways to get the most out of their money. This is a reason why the kids went from trying the cocaine out before the purchase to it being prepackaged. The members resorted to this lifestyle hoping to have a better life for themselves and their

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