Workshop in Urban Ethnography-Spring 2016

Mondays, 11:30am-1:20 pm

210 Prospect St, Room 203

The ethnographic interpretation of urban life and culture. Conceptual and methodological issues will be discussed. Ongoing projects of participants will be presented in a “workshop” format, thus providing participants with critical feedback as well as the opportunity to learn from and contribute to ethnographic work “in progress.” Selected ethnographic works will be read and assessed.

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January 22/25 Elijah Anderson Yale University Urban Iconography and the Stigma of Blackness
February 1 Michael DeLand Yale University The Ocean Run: Integrative Mixing in a Public Park Basketball Scene
February 8 Chris Rabb Temple University The Unholy Trinity of Business Success: Hard Work, a “Great Idea,” and a “Good Attitude
February 15 Luke Anderson Providence, RI “I’m Known”: Building Relationships and Helping Students Construct Counter-Narratives in an Inner City School
February 22 William Helmreich CUNY The Brooklyn Nobody Knows
February 29 Philip Kasinitz CUNY Insiders and Outsiders, Loners, Rogues and Team leaders: Reflections on “Otherness,” Ethnography and Race in the American City
March 7 Cheryl Gilkes Colby College Ethnography, Imagination, and Slave Religion
March 28 David Grazian University of Pennsylvania Birds of a Feather: Zookeepers and the Call of the Wild
April 4 Elijah Anderson Yale University Jelly’s Place: An Ethnographic Memoir
April 11 Elijah Anderson Yale University Making Sense: The Analysis and Writing Up of Fieldwork Experience
April 18 Daryl Scott Howard University Victims of the Enlightenment: Civic Nationalism and White Supremacy in the South, 1965 to Present
April 25 Mitchell Duneier Princeton University Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea