Acclaim for Mitchell Duneier's SIDEWALK "Duneier manages to cut through pie-in-the-sky idealism with con vincing research married to a well-considered dialectic.. Adding to the powerful text are hauntingly beautiful photographs by Ovie Carter. -Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times Book Review [Sidewalk] is in the best traditions of participant observation. If I were still teaching, I would want all of my students to read this book.” William Foote Whyte, author of Street Corner Society An inspired yet strategically conceived work that restores a sense of new possibility and passion to ethnography. -George E. Marcus, Rice University, author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin "Sidewalk brings us close to the hustle and bustle of urban street life-the book is a knowing, thoughtful exploration that will earn it a place among the classics of the documentary tradition robert Coles That [Duneier] can be wry and in some instances condemnatory only makes more striking the sympathetic understanding that runs through his magnificent book, with luminous photographs by ovie Carter, whose camera eye, held steady, records the humanity that ours avoids. Contrary to a periscope, Sidewalk refracts our vision ownward, breaking through to what, for freshness, seems un- nervingly like open sky underneath our feet. -Richard Eder. The New york Times Life on city sidewalks. is explored with novelistic nuance in this gritty, intimate study. -Megan Harlan, Entertainment Weekly
The world of sidewalk vending [is] a highly complex socioeco nomic sphere with its own rules, hierarchies and sense of order. In bringing that world to his readers with tremendous humility and integrity, Duneier has written what is sure to become a contempo- rary classIc of urban soclology Andrew O'Hehir, Salon No one has combined theory and intimate knowledge of city streets as successfully. A masterpiece of fieldwork. Howard S: Becker, author of Outsiders Always sympathetic to [the homeless'] struggles in a society whose reactions typically range from disapproval to fear, Duneier nonetheless avoids'sociological romance'and doesn' t fight shy of issues like criminality and drug abuse. The New yorker Like Jacob] Riis a century ago, Duneier--with the aid of Ovie Carter's excellent photographs of everyone concerned and all salient details-demonstrates the humanity and character of the city's forgotten, and enumerates the particulars of their oppres- sion. I won t make any bets that politicians or cops will read this book, but perhaps the requisite shame and doubt will eventually trickle down to them the way the substance of Riis's How the Other Half Lives touched slumlords, if only for a little while -Luc Sante, Voice Literary Supplement ' Mitchell Duneier must be one of the outstanding ethnographers of our time: he renders visible what typically remains submerged as we take in the world at street level. This is a deep, complex, moving book that yanks you out of your own lived experiences of that world and draws you to another. -Saskia Sassen, author of The Global City An eloquently persuasive argument... Duneier writes lucidly and sympathetically, with a minimum of jargon, and wisely lets incident and anecdote take the place-and do the work--of theory and abstraction... [Longtime vendor Hakim) Hasan's afterword completes the portrait that Duneier has so ably drawn racine Prose, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Sidewalk will radically change the way we think about 'the pub lic sphere. Robin D G. Kelley, Professor of History and Africana Studies New York University and author of Yo mama' s Disfunktional! Duneier does more than simply provide a critique of racial and class stereotypes. He examines how people commonly stigmatized by and excluded from traditional society on the basis of their race and class struggle to define moral standards and to live according to those standards -Charles Davis. The Atlantic Unbound "a brilliant and meticulous description of a distinctly urban phe- nomenon: the life of the sidewalk and the people who live and work there -Eve Claxton, Time Out New york A nuanced study of the lives of impoverished street vendors in New York,'s Greenwich Village.. A work that adds much to our understanding of race, poverty, and our reactions to them. Kirkus reviews " Sidewalk is an important book... Duneier reaffirms the value and tradition of Chicago School symbolic interactionism [and also extends] this tradition by integrating new approaches and in sights, particularly from feminist theory and conversation analy- sis. The result is an impressive blend of the past and present of our discipline. -Philip Manning, Symbolic Interaction Beyond its sensitive portrayal of black men living on the margins of society, Sidewalk is a testament to the survival skills of a people who from slavery to the present somehow have cobbled lives stunted by racial deprivation into a mostly unheralded affirmation of the human spirit -Derrick Bell, author of faces at the bottom of the well
Mitchell Duneier is an associate professor of sociology at the Uni- rersity of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of California at Santa Barbara. His first book, Slim's Table, received the 1994 Dis tinguished Publication Award from the American Sociological Association Ovie Carter, a photographer for the Chicago Tribune, has received the Pulitzer Prize and multiple awards of Excellence from the Na- tional Association of Black journalists
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Farrar, Straus and giroux 18 West 18th Street, New York 10011 Copyright 1999 by Mitchell Duneier Photographs copyright 1999 by Ovie Carter Afterword copyright 1999 by Hakim Hasan All rights reserved Distributed in Canada by Douglas 8 Mcintyre Ltd Printed in the United States of America Published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Fir Library of Congress catalog card number: 98-73831 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-374-52725-9 Paperback ISBN-10: 0-374-52725-3 Cover and map concept by Penelope Hardy www.fsgbooks.com 14161715
