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On the Run : Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman (2015, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherPicador
ISBN-101250065666
ISBN-139781250065667
eBay Product ID (ePID)203531418
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Book TitleOn the Run : Fugitive Life in an American City
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicDiscrimination & Race Relations, Law Enforcement, General, Penology, Sociology / Urban, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year2015
GenreLaw, Political Science, Social Science
AuthorAlice Goffman
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight8.8 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2015-937079
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Extraordinary." -- Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker "A remarkable feat of reporting...The level of detail in this book and Goffman's ability to understand her subjects' motivations are astonishing--and riveting." -- The New York Times Book Review "Necessary... Goffman's lively prose--communicated in a striking voice rare for an academic--opens a window into a life where paranoia has become routine... She goes beyond her street-level focus to argue something more profound." -- Baltimore City Paper "Alice Goffman's On the Run is the best treatment I know of the wretched underside of neo-liberal capitalist America. Despite the social misery and fragmented relations, she gives us a subtle analysis and poignant portrait of our fellow citizens who struggle to preserve their sanity and dignity." -- Cornel West, "Extraordinary."-Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker "A remarkable feat of reporting... The level of detail in this book and Goffman's ability to understand her subjects' motivations are astonishing-and riveting."- The New York Times Book Review "One of the most eagerly awaited urban ethnographies in years... Ms. Goffman's book both builds on [ The New Jim Crow ] and pushes past it, closely tracking a group of young men caught up in what she characterizes as a new system of surveillance and control that reaches far beyond the walls of prison."- The New York Times, Necessary… Goffman's lively prose--communicated in a striking voice rare for an academic--opens a window into a life where paranoia has become routine… She goes beyond her street-level focus to argue something more profound., "Extraordinary."- Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker "A remarkable feat of reporting…The level of detail in this book and Goffman's ability to understand her subjects' motivations are astonishing-and riveting."- The New York Times Book Review "Necessary… Goffman's lively prose-communicated in a striking voice rare for an academic-opens a window into a life where paranoia has become routine… She goes beyond her street-level focus to argue something more profound."- Baltimore City Paper "Alice Goffman's On the Run is the best treatment I know of the wretched underside of neo-liberal capitalist America. Despite the social misery and fragmented relations, she gives us a subtle analysis and poignant portrait of our fellow citizens who struggle to preserve their sanity and dignity." - Cornel West, A remarkable feat of reporting...The level of detail in this book and Goffman's ability to understand her subjects' motivations are astonishing--and riveting., Alice Goffman's On the Run is the best treatment I know of the wretched underside of neo-liberal capitalist America. Despite the social misery and fragmented relations, she gives us a subtle analysis and poignant portrait of our fellow citizens who struggle to preserve their sanity and dignity., A remarkable feat of reporting…The level of detail in this book and Goffman's ability to understand her subjects' motivations are astonishing--and riveting., Necessary... Goffman's lively prose--communicated in a striking voice rare for an academic--opens a window into a life where paranoia has become routine... She goes beyond her street-level focus to argue something more profound.
Dewey Decimal364.3496073074811
SynopsisA RIVETING, GROUNDBREAKING ACCOUNT OF HOW THE WAR ON CRIME HAS TORN APART INNER-CITY COMMUNITIES Forty years in, the tough on crime turn in American politics has spurred a prison boom of historic proportions that disproportionately affects Black communities. It has also torn at the lives of those on the outside. As arrest quotas and high tech surveillance criminalize entire blocks, a climate of fear and suspicion pervades daily life, not only for young men entangled in the legal system, but for their family members and working neighbors. Alice Goffman spent six years in one Philadelphia neighborhood, documenting the routine stops, searches, raids, and beatings that young men navigate as they come of age. In the course of her research, she became roommates with Mike and Chuck, two friends trying to make ends meet between low wage jobs and the drug trade. Like many in the neighborhood, Mike and Chuck were caught up in a cycle of court cases, probation sentences, and low level warrants, with no clear way out. We observe their girlfriends and mothers enduring raids and interrogations, "clean" residents struggling to go to school and work every day as the cops chase down neighbors in the streets, and others eking out a living by providing clean urine, fake documents, and off the books medical care. This fugitive world is the hidden counterpoint to mass incarceration, the grim underside of our nation's social experiment in punishing Black men and their families. While recognizing the drug trade's damage, On The Run reveals a justice system gone awry: it is an exemplary work of scholarship highlighting the failures of the War on Crime, and a compassionate chronicle of the families caught in the midst of it. "A remarkable feat of reporting . . . The level of detail in this book and Goffman's ability to understand her subjects' motivations are astonishing--and riveting."-- The New York Times Book Review
LC Classification NumberHV9956.P53G64 2015
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