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On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
Alice Goffman
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Description for On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
paperback. War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. The author introduces you to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance. Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSG; JFSL3; JKSW1; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance - some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All ... Read more
Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance - some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
Condition
New
Weight
445g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226275406
SKU
V9780226275406
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About Alice Goffman
Alice Goffman is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She lives in Madison.
Reviews for On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
This is a truly wonderful book that identifies the casualties of the war on drugs that extend beyond the prison walls.... The detail is incredible. The research is impeccable. Read it and weep. (Times Higher Education) Extraordinary.... The best work of ethnography I have read in a very, very long time. (LSE Review of Books) An ... Read more