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