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 separation / Joanna Dreby
Schooling and the culture of control
Elements of a culture / Paul Willis
Leveled aspirations : social reproduction takes its toll / Jay MacLeod
Instituting the culture of control : disciplinary practices and order maintenance / Kathleen Nolan
The labelling hype : coming of age in the era of mass incarceration / Victor Rios
Getting paid
"Getting by" in hobohemia / Nels Anderson
The life cycle of the taxi-dancer / Paul Cressey
The laundryman's social world / Paul Siu
Men and jobs / Elliott Liebow
No shame in (this) game / Katherine Newman
Serving time / Peter Bearman
Mobility for the nonmobile : cell phone, technology, and childcare / Tamara Mose Brown
Getting the shit / Randol Contreras
Playing together : the serious side of recreation and leisure
Bowling and social ranking / William Foote Whyte
The professional dance musician and his audience / Howard Becker
Welcome to studio 104 & pitiful preliminaries / Loic Wacquant
The clubhouse and class cultures / Sherri Grasmuck
Race-ing men : boys, risk, and the politics of race / Amy Best
Cracking the code : race, class, and access to nightclubs in urban America / Reuben Buford May and Kenneth Sean Chaplin
Winning the bar : nightlife as a sporting ritual / David Grazian
Battlin' on the corner : techniques for sustaining play / Jooyoung Lee
"But does it have a point?" ethnography & social policy
The destruction of Boston's West End / Herbert Gans
Working the deuce / William Kornblum
Letter from a crackhouse / Terry Williams
Welfare / Kathryn Edin and Christopher Jencks
Missing the connection : social isolation and employment on the Brooklyn waterfront / Philip Kasinitz and Jan Rosenberg
On the run : wanted men in a Philadelphia ghetto / Alice Goffman
Ethnographers & their subjects
So what do you want from us here? / Barbara Myerhoff
Violating apartheid in the United States / Philippe Bourgois
Afterword / Hakim Hasan
The hustler and the hustled / Sudhir Venkatesh
Reflections on longitudinal ethnography and the families / Annette Lareau
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The urban ethnography reader. ISBN 9780199743575. Published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.