The urban ethnography reader

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 work.

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Credits -- An introduction to urban ethnography / Mitchell Duneier, Philip Kasinitz and Alexandra K. Murphy -- Finding community in the modern city -- Chinatown / Jacob Riis -- Social classes and amusements / W.E.B. Du Bois -- Lower class : sex and family / St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton -- Life styles / Ulf Hannerz -- Patterns of black-white interaction / Harvey Molotch -- No friends / John Jackson -- In Tucuani, he goes crazy / Robert Smith -- Grit and glamour / Richard Lloyd -- Neighborhood symbiosis / Andrew Deener -- Social worlds, public spaces -- Patterns of collective action / Laud Humphreys -- The territorial imperative / James Spradley and Brenda Mann -- The black male in public / Elijah Anderson -- Empowering the "gaze" : personal stereos and the hidden look / Michael Bull -- Pissed off in L.A. / Jack Katz -- Feeding the pigeons : sidewalk sociability in Greenwich village / Colin Jerolmack -- Raising a family -- Kinship and community / Michael Young and Peter Willmott -- Swapping / Carol Stack -- Growing up in groveland / Mary Patillo-McCoy -- Towanda : making sense of early motherhood in west Baltimore / Patricia Fernandez-Kelly -- Children and power during separati…