Table of Content
An Introduction to Urban EthnographyPart 1. Finding Community in the Modern City1. Chinatown2. Social Classes and Amusements3. Lower Class: Sex and Family4. Life Styles5. Patterns of Black-White Interaction6. No Friends7. In Tucuani, He Goes Crazy8. Grit and Glamour9. Neighborhood SymbiosisPart 2. Social Worlds, Public SpacesIntroduction10. Patterns of Collective Action11. The Territorial Imperative12. The Black Male in Public13. Empowering the "Gaze": Personal Stereos and the Hidden Look14. Pissed Off in L.A.15. Feeding the Pigeons: Sidewalk Sociability in Greenwich VillagePart 3. Raising a FamilyIntroduction16. Kinship and Community17. Swapping18. Growing Up in Groveland19. Towanda: Making Sense of Early Motherhood in West Baltimore20. Children and Power During SeparationPart 4. Schooling and the Culture of ControlIntroduction21. Elements of a Culture22. Leveled Aspirations: Social Reproduction Takes its Toll23. Instituting the Culture of Control: Disciplinary Practices and Order Maintenance24. The Labelling Hype: Coming of Age in the Era of Mass IncarcerationPart 5. Getting PaidIntroduction25. "Getting By" in Hobohemia26. The Life Cycle of the Taxi-Dancer27. The Laundryman's Social World28. Men and Jobs29. No Shame in (This) Game30. Serving Time31. Mobility for the Nonmobile: Cell Phone, Technology, and Childcare32. Getting the ShitPart 6. Playnig Together: The Serious Side of Recreation and LeisureIntroduction33. Bowling and Social Ranking34. The Professional Dance Musician and His Audience35. Welcome to Studio 104 and Pitiful Preliminaries36. The Clubhouse and Class Cultures37. Race-ing Men: Boys, Risk, and the Politics of Race38. Cracking the Code: Race, Class, and Access to Nightclubs in Urban America39. Winning the Bar: Nightlife as a Sporting Ritual40. Battlin' on the Corner: Techniques for Sustaining PlayPart 7. "But Does it Have a Point?" Ethnography and Social PolicyIntroduction41. The Destruction of Boston's West End42. Working the Deuce43. Letter From a Crackhouse44. Welfare45. Missing the Connection: Social isolation and Employment on the Brooklyn Waterfront46. On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia GhettoPart 8. Ethnographers and Their SubjectsIntroduction47. So What Do You Want From Us Here?48. Violating Apartheid in the United States49. Afterword50. The Hustler and the Hustled51. Reflections on Longitudinal Ethnography and the FamiliesCreditsIndex
