The Urban Ethnography Reader

Mitchell Duneier is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. Philip Kasinitz is Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College of the City University of New York. Alexandra K. Murphy is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan.

• 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 ; Loic 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

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