Table of Contents
Series Foreword x
Preface xi
Introduction: Sociology’s Urban Explorers 1
Richard E. Ocejo
Part I: Data Collection Strategies
Section I: Being There, Up Close 17
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1.Gans, H.J. 1962. "Redevelopment of the West End," The Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans. NY: The Free Press: 281; 288 – 98. 25
2.Bourgois, P. 1995. "Families and Children in Pain," In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge Press: 259 – 267; 272 – 276. 32
3.Lloyd, R. 2006. "The Celebrity Neighborhood," Neo-Bohemia: Art and Commerce in the Postindustrial City. NY: Routledge: 123 – 143. 41
4. Pattillo, M. 2008. "The Black Bourgeoisie Meets the Truly Disadvantaged," Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 87 – 100. 53
5.Perez, G. 2004. "Los deAfuera, Transnationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Identity," in The Near Northwest Side Story. Berkeley: University of California Press: 92 – 94; 96 – 110. 64
Section II: Being on the Job 79
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6.Duneier, M. 1999. "A Christmas on Sixth Avenue," Sidewalk. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 253 – 256; 260 – 279. 87
7.Moskos, P. 2008. "The Corner: Life on the Streets," Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore’s Eastern District. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 64-66; 77-80 100
8.Grazian, D. 2003. "Like Therapy: The Blues Club as a Haven," Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 87 – 90; 105 – 116. 107
9.Wynn, J.R. 2005. "Guiding Practices: Storytelling Tricks for Reproducing the Urban Landscape," Qualitative Sociology, 28, 4: 399 – 400; 404 – 413. 118
10.Trimbur, L. 2011. "‘Tough Love’: Mediation and Articulation in the Urban Boxing Gym," Ethnography, 12, 3: 334 –33 6; 339 – 343; 346 – 350. 127
11.Bender, C. 2003. "What We Talk about When We Talk about Religion," Heaven’s Kitchen: Living Religion at God’s Love We Deliver. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 92 – 103. 138
Part II: Relationships with Participants
Section I: Crossing Boundaries 149
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12.Whyte, W.F. 1943. "Doc and His Boys," Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum. Chicago: University of Chicago Press: 14 – 25. 157
13.Liebow, E. 1967. "Men and Jobs," Tally’s Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company: 61 – 71. 164
14.Stack, Carol. 1974. "The Flats" and "Swapping: What Goes Around Comes Around," All Our Kin. NY: Basic Books: 11 – 16; 32 – 43. 169
15.Venkatesh, Sudhir. 2002. "‘Doin’ the Hustle’: Constructing the Ethnographer in the American Ghetto," Ethnography, 3, 1: 91 – 92; 96 – 103. 179
16.Cavan, S. 1966. "The Marketplace Bar," Liquor License: An Ethnography of Bar Behavior. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company: 171 – 177; 193 – 200. 186
17.Auyero, J. & Swistun, A. 2009. "The Compound and the Neighborhood," Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 28 – 31; 32 – 44. 194
Section II: Doing the Right Thing 207
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18.Humphreys, L. 1975. "The People Next Door," Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places. Piscataway, NJ: Aldine Transactions: 106 – 11; 114 – 22. 216
19.Ferrell, J. 1993. "Denver Graffiti and the Syndicate Scene," Crimes of Style: Urban Graffiti and the Politics of Criminality. Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press: 21 – 26; 49 – 53. 225
20.Contreras, R. 2009. "‘Damn, Yo—Who’s That Girl?’ An Ethnographic Analysis of Masculinity in Drug Robberies," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 38, 4: 465 – 466; 474 – 483. 231
References 239
Copyright Acknowledgements 249
Index 251