The ghetto is among the most complex and troubling of all American institutions. This course analyzes the American ghetto in historical and contemporary perspective, exploring topics such as racial segregation, urban poverty, inner-city schools, the underground economy, and the prison boom.
This seminar offers an introduction to the practice, politics, and poetics of ethnographic fieldwork, the method of immersing oneself into people’s daily routines and systematically recording social processes as they unfold in real time.
