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For the outsider, the prospect of blending into the fabric of an urban African American ghetto might be an intimidating one. But for a Scandinavian scholar, the idea of getting to know one of Washington, D.C.'s toughest neighborhoods from the inside, during the racially tense late 1960s, could well have seemed impossible. Conducting fieldwork in and around Winston Street, Ulf Hannerz did just that. Soulside details the everyday lives of the ghetto inhabitants he observed and interacted with during this period, revealing their beliefs and expectations and the diversity of their lifestyles. Originally published thirty-five years ago, Soulside became an urban anthropological classic. The book helped to dispel many false impressions about ghetto life and questioned the idea, precipitated in the influential Moynihan Report and in notions of a "culture of poverty," that the poor had chosen to lead the lives they do. Raising central moral and political questions about American society in a turbulent period, Soulside became an example of public engagement in anthropology. In a new afterword, Ulf Hannerz discusses the book's place in the debates of the time and its relevance to current arguments in anthropology.
| ISBN | 0226315762 | | Pages | 236 | | ISBN13 | 9780226315768
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | The University of Chicago Press | | Weight (grammes) | 442 | | Imprint | University of Chicago Press | | Published in | Chicago, IL | | Format | Paperback | | Series title | Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture | | Publication date | 07 Sep 2004 | | Height (mm) | 256 | | Library of Congress | F205.N4 \H | | Width (mm) | 178 | | DEWEY | 305.8960730753 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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""Soulside's" pathbreaking description and explanation of US ghetto life is one of the greatest works of urban ethnography produced since the end of the Chicago School. This new edition will continue to inform a wide general readership while inspiring, in a sophisticated way, new generations of students trying to grapple with age old questions of culture and poverty."--Mitch Duneier, author of "Sidewalk" and "Slim's Table"--Mitch Duneier, author of Sidewalk and Slim's Table  Be the first to write a customer review
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