Fugitive life in an american city fieldwork encounters and discoveries. Fugitive life in an american city, an ethnographic account of the fieldwork for her phd dissertation on the impact of mass incarceration and policing on lowincome. Alice goffman born 1982 is an american sociologist, urban ethnographer, and visiting assistant professor of sociology at pomona college goffman became known because of scholarly controversies concerning her book on the run. Alice goffman spent six years in one philadelphia neighborhood, documenting the routine stops, searches, raids, and beatings that young men navigate as they come of age.
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