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