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Urban ethnography is the firsthand study of city life by investigators who immerse themselves in the worlds of the people about whom they write. Since its inception in the early twentieth century, this great tradition has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers.The past few decades have seen an extraordinary revival in the field, as scholars and the public at large grapple with the increasingly complex and pressing issues that
affect the ever-changing American city-from poverty to the immigrant experience, the changing nature of social bonds to mass incarceration, hyper-segregation to gentrification. As both a method of
research and a form of literature, urban ethnography has seen a notable and important resurgence.This renewed interest demands a clear and comprehensive understanding of the history and development of the field to which this volume contributes by presenting a selection of past and present contributions to American urban ethnographic writing. Beginning with an original introduction highlighting the origins, practices, and significance of the field, editors Mitchell Duneier,
Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra Murphy guide the reader through the major and fascinating topics on which it has focused -- from the community, public spaces, family, education, work, and recreation,
to social policy, and the relationship between ethnographers and their subjects.An indispensable guide, The Urban Ethnography Reader provides an overview of how the discipline has grown and developed while offering students and scholars a selection of some of the finest social scientific writing on the life of the modern city.
Urban ethnography is the firsthand study of city life by investigators who immerse themselves in the worlds of the people about whom they write. Since its inception in the early twentieth century, this great tradition has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers.The past few decades have seen an extraordinary revival in the field, as scholars and the public at large grapple with the increasingly complex and pressing issues that
affect the ever-changing American city-from poverty to the immigrant experience, the changing nature of social bonds to mass incarceration, hyper-segregation to gentrification. As both a method of
research and a form of literature, urban ethnography has seen a notable and important resurgence.This renewed interest demands a clear and comprehensive understanding of the history and development of the field to which this volume contributes by presenting a selection of past and present contributions to American urban ethnographic writing. Beginning with an original introduction highlighting the origins, practices, and significance of the field, editors Mitchell Duneier,
Philip Kasinitz, and Alexandra Murphy guide the reader through the major and fascinating topics on which it has focused -- from the community, public spaces, family, education, work, and recreation,
to social policy, and the relationship between ethnographers and their subjects.An indispensable guide, The Urban Ethnography Reader provides an overview of how the discipline has grown and developed while offering students and scholars a selection of some of the finest social scientific writing on the life of the modern city.
AN INTRODUCTION TO URBAN ETHNOGRAPHY
Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz and Alexandra K. Murphy
PART 1. FINDING COMMUNITY IN THE MODERN CITY
INTRODUCTION
1 CHINATOWN
Jacob Riis
2 SOCIAL CLASSES AND AMUSEMENTS
W.E.B. Du Bois
3 LOWER CLASS: SEX AND FAMILY
St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton
4 LIFE STYLES
Ulf Hannerz
5 PATTERNS OF BLACK-WHITE INTERACTION
Harvey Molotch
6 NO FRIENDS
John Jackson
7 IN TUCUANI, HE GOES CRAZY
Robert Smith
8 GRIT AND GLAMOUR
Richard Lloyd
9 NEIGHBORHOOD SYMBIOSIS
Andrew Deener
PART 2. SOCIAL WORLDS, PUBLIC SPACES
INTRODUCTION
10 PATTERNS OF COLLECTIVE ACTION
Laud Humphreys
11 THE TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE
James Spradley and Brenda Mann
12 THE BLACK MALE IN PUBLIC
Elijah Anderson
13 EMPOWERING THE 'GAZE:' PERSONAL STEREOS AND THE HIDDEN LOOK
Michael Bull
14 PISSED OFF IN L.A.
Jack Katz
15 FEEDING THE PIGEONS: SIDEWALK SOCIABILITY IN GREENWICH
VILLAGE
Colin Jerolmack
PART 3. RAISING A FAMILY
INTRODUCTION
16 KINSHIP AND COMMUNITY
Michael Young and Peter Willmott
17 SWAPPING
Carol Stack
18 GROWING UP IN GROVELAND
Mary Patillo-McCoy
19 TOWANDA: MAKING SENSE OF EARLY MOTHERHOOD IN WEST BALTIMORE
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
20 CHILDREN AND POWER DURING SEPARATION
Joanna Dreby
PART 4. SCHOOLING AND THE CULTURE OF CONTROL
INTRODUCTION
21 ELEMENTS OF A CULTURE
Paul Willis
22 LEVELED ASPIRATIONS: SOCIAL REPRODUCTION TAKES ITS TOLL
Jay MacLeod
23 INSTITUTING THE CULTURE OF CONTROL: DISCIPLINARY PRACTICES AND
ORDER MAINTENANCE
Kathleen Nolan
24 THE LABELLING HYPE: COMING OF AGE IN THE ERA OF MASS
INCARCERATION
Victor Rios
PART 5. GETTING PAID
INTRODUCTION
25 'GETTING BY' IN HOBOHEMIA
Nels Anderson
26 THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE TAXI-DANCER
Paul Cressey
27 THE LAUNDRYMAN's SOCIAL WORLD
Paul Siu
28 MEN AND JOBS
Elliott Liebow
29 NO SHAME IN (THIS) GAME
Katherine Newman
30 SERVING TIME
Peter Bearman
31 MOBILITY FOR THE NONMOBILE: CELL PHONE, TECHNOLOGY, AND
CHILDCARE
Tamara Mose Brown
32 GETTING THE SHIT
Randol Contreras
PART 6. PLAYING TOGETHER: THE SERIOUS SIDE OF RECREATION AND
LEISURE
INTRODUCTION
33 BOWLING AND SOCIAL RANKING
William Foote Whyte
34 THE PROFESSIONAL DANCE MUSICIAN AND HIS AUDIENCE
Howard Becker
35 WELCOME TO STUDIO 104 & PITIFUL PRELIMINARIES
Loïc Wacquant
36 THE CLUBHOUSE AND CLASS CULTURES
Sherri Grasmuck
37 RACE-ING MEN: BOYS, RISK, AND THE POLITICS OF RACE
Amy Best
38 CRACKING THE CODE: RACE, CLASS, AND ACCESS TO NIGHTCLUBS IN
URBAN AMERICA
Reuben Buford May and Kenneth Sean Chaplin
39 WINNING THE BAR: NIGHTLIFE AS A SPORTING RITUAL
David Grazian
40 BATTLIN' ON THE CORNER: TECHNIQUES FOR SUSTAINING PLAY
Jooyoung Lee
PART 7. 'BUT DOES IT HAVE A POINT?' ETHNOGRAPHY & SOCIAL POLICY
INTRODUCTION
41 THE DESTRUCTION OF BOSTON'S WEST END
Herbert Gans
42 WORKING THE DEUCE
William Kornblum
43 LETTER FROM A CRACKHOUSE
Terry Williams
44 WELFARE
Kathryn Edin and Christopher Jencks
45 MISSING THE CONNECTION: SOCIAL ISOLATION AND EMPLOYMENT ON THE
BROOKLYN WATERFRONT
Philip Kasinitz and Jan Rosenberg
46 ON THE RUN: WANTED MEN IN A PHILADELPHIA GHETTO
Alice Goffman
PART 8. ETHNOGRAPHERS & THEIR SUBJECTS
INTRODUCTION
47 SO WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM US HERE?
Barbara Myerhoff
48 VIOLATING APARTHEID IN THE UNITED STATES
Philippe Bourgois
49 AFTERWORD
Hakim Hasan
50 THE HUSTLER AND THE HUSTLED
Sudhir Venkatesh
51 REFLECTIONS ON LONGITUDINAL ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE FAMILIES
Annette Lareau
CREDITS
INDEX
Mitchell Duneier is Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at
Princeton University and a regular visiting professor at the City
University of New York. He is the author of Sidewalk and Slim's
Table, recipient of the American Sociological Association's
Distinguished Publication Award.
Philip Kasinitz is Presidential Professor of Sociology at the CUNY
Graduate Center. He is the author of Caribbean New York and
co-author of Inheriting the City, also the recipient of the
American Sociological Association's Distinguished Publication
Award.
Alexandra K. Murphy, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Poverty
Center at the University of Michigan, received her doctorate in
sociology from Princeton in 2012. She is the author of Where the
Sidewalk Ends: Poverty in an American Suburb, to be published by
Oxford.
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