Summary Of Slim's Table And Sidewalk By Mitchell Duneier
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Mitchell Duneier is a Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, also, he is an author of the award-winning urban ethnographies Slim’s Table and Sidewalk. When he decided to write the book Ghetto it was because the word “ghetto” was associated with disgraceful and harmful stereotypes, so he hoped to show that “ghetto” is still a functional concept, providing a historical background through research. Getting his work from black sociologist, he uses their viewpoints, rhetorical strategies, and the push and pull between them and their white colleagues for each chapter, studying the removal of the black ghetto as a place of forced imprisonment. For the final chapter, Mitchell Duneier, in 2013, brought some of his students to Warsaw’s POLIN