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Title: Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity by Mitchell Duneier, Ovie Carter ISBN: 0-226-17031-4 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: You won't be sorry you read this
Comment: Whether its your major, for an intro class, or just for fun, everyone can walk away with something from this book. It written well, and really makes you think about our society.
Rating: 5
Summary: Sociology with a Human Face
Comment: I've read other sociological works on inner city residents and was invariably disturbed by the soulless way in which the subjects were portrayed. No doubt, the authors of those works would defend their method as being objective and showing rigor. However, at some level, the objectivity becomes stultifying and numbing.
Duneier cuts through all of this by portraying real people as human beings for whom he cares deeply. At the same time, he is able to pull back from the personal stories and draw conclusions that are intellectually sound. One feels a deep sense of pride in the men whose lives are profiled in Slim's Table and a lingering sense of regret that they seem to be a dying breed.
This book is the rare work that appeals in equal parts to the intellect and the soul.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very enjoyable
Comment: Last spring I took a course from Mitchell entitled Urban Sociology at the University of California Santa Barbara. Mitchell would read us exerts from the book and I found it very intriguing. This summer I decided to purchase the book so I could have my very own copy, it's great! The men Mitchell writes about and talked about in class seem to be on my mind; these men are normal men, making the streets their home. I enjoyed their humor throughout the book and Mitchell's too. I highly recommend this book and highly respect Mitchell. I can't wait to read his other book entitled Streetwise.
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Title: Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier, Ovie Carter ISBN: 0374527253 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 20 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City by Elijah Anderson ISBN: 0393320782 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community by Elijah Anderson ISBN: 0226018164 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 1992 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ethnography Unbound: Power and Resistance in the Modern Metropolis by Michael Burawoy, Joshua Gamson, Alice Burton ISBN: 0520073223 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago by Eric Klinenberg ISBN: 0226443221 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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