ABSTRACT
RECENT URBAN ETHNOGRAPHIES Let me start my comments on Connell’s and Kubisch’s paper by pointing our attention in a seemingly unrelated direction: recent urban, inner-city ethnographies. To mention just a few-and I apologize if I am leaving out your favorite: Philippe Bourgois’s In Search of Respect done in Spanish Harlem, Terry Williams’ The Cocaine Kids done on the upper west side of New York City, Mercer Sullivan’s multi-neighborhood Getting Paid, and Eli Anderson’s Streetwise, done in some neighborhoods near the University of Pennsylvania (Anderson 1991; Bourgois 1996; Sullivan 1989; Williams 1989).
