by Alice Goffman
A very engaging ethnography - as a college student, the author moved to the inner city and spent her time hanging out with a group of young black men often on the run from the law. The book is a good look into how heavy policing affects all aspects of individual and community life. And the author is...
Very interesting and enlightening. We don't often think that separate cultures exist within urban and sub-urban areas, but a book like this helps demonstrate that what we might think of as an objective issue is truly subjective and multi-faceted. Everyone should read this book or one related to it a...
Undoubtedly this book is compared to both Code of the Streets and Gang Leader for a Day. Such a comparison would be fair, and Goffman herself was a student of Andersen (author of Code of the Streets). Goffman’s book presents her study of a group of people, predominately young men...
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