The Urban Ethnography Reader

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

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