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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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In Defense of Alice Goffman - The Chronicle of Higher Education
In Defense of Alice Goffman. October 11, 2015. To the Editor: I strenuously object to the publication of Paul Campos's "Alice Goffman's Implausible Ethnography" ...
Alice Goffman and the Future of Ethnography | Paul Stoller
So it is with the public controversy about Alice Goffman's much-discussed book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City. Consider Marc Parry's recent ...
Deep Cover: Alice Goffman's 'On the Run' - NYTimes.com
Its author, Alice Goffman, a young sociologist, had an ethnography assignment for an undergraduate class at the University of Pennsylvania, and she, the ...

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