![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mentioned alongside Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow, On the Run’s many admirers say it not only reveals things that “we” do not know about what is being done to a portion of the population, it centers that population’s negotiations of an unlivability produced by policing and all-too-often drowned out by the (right, liberal, and left) white noise of calls for increased ”security.” Goffman’s admirers believe that she has provided “extraordinary” new insight into how and why black life is lived under and against occupation. An “urban” ethnography of a mixed-income, black neighborhood in West Philadelphia in the early 2000s that Goffman calls 6th Street, On the Run is “an account of the prison boom and its more hidden practices of policing and surveillance as young people living in one relatively poor Black neighborhood in Philadelphia experience and understand them.” To produce this “on-the-ground account” of a “community on the run,” Goffman took on the role of participant observer. “ Annotate: To add notes to, furnish with notes (a literary work or author).”Īlice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is the latest installment in a sociological tradition that subjects black life to scholarly scrutiny. ![]()
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