Full Description
Urban ethnography is one of the oldest traditions of American social science and has helped define how we think about cities and city dwellers since its inception in the early twentieth century. Renewed interest in urban poverty, the immigrant experience, and gentrification among the public and scholars alike has focused attention on qualitative methods in the social sciences, and the field of urban ethnography in particular receives more attention now than at any point since its inception.
The Urban Ethnography Reader assembles the very best of American ethnographic writing, from classic works to contemporary research, and aims to present ethnography as social science, social history, and literature alongside its traditional place as methodology. In addition to an original introduction that highlights the importance and development of the field, Kasinitz, Duneier, and Murphy also provide introductions to each section of the book. The section introductions will cover the period's historical events and how they influenced the study of the city, the major themes and preoccupations of ethnography, what was happening in the social sciences as a whole, and how the excerpts chosen fit into the larger work in which they were originally published. A valuable companion to a wide range of courses on cities across the social sciences, The Urban Ethnography Reader captures the diversity, the historical development, and the continuing importance of the ethnographic approach to understanding American communities.
Contents
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
