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Alice Goffman
Urban Sociologist, Social Justice Advocate & Author
Alice Goffman’s fieldwork in a struggling Philadelphia neighborhood sheds harsh light on a justice system that creates suspects rather than citizens.
As a Penn undergraduate, Alice Goffman lived side-by-side with a group of African-American young men in one of the US’s most distressed communities, experiencing a troubling and rarely discussed side of urban policing -- the beatings, late night raids and body searches that systematically pit young men against authority, regardless of their crimes.
In On the Run, Goffman weaves groundbreaking research into a narrative amplifying neglected and often ignored voices into a stirring, personal indictment of the social, economic and political forces that unwittingly conspire to push entire communities to the margins of society.
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