Eric Klinenberg's Spring 2024 NYU Urban Ethnography Doctoral Seminar
1. 
My Girls: The Power of Friendship in a Poor Neighborhood
by:
Jasmin Sandelson
4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings 2. 
Summoned: Identification and Religious Life in a Jewish Neighborhood
by:
Iddo Tavory
3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings 3. 
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
by:
Matthew Desmond
4.47 avg rating — 109,951 ratings 4. 
Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago
by:
Eric Klinenberg
3.91 avg rating — 1,231 ratings 5. 
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
by:
Eve L. Ewing
4.38 avg rating — 3,350 ratings 6. 
Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration 4.24 avg rating — 1,189 ratings
8. 
What Is a Case?: Exploring the Foundations of Social Inquiry
by:
Charles C. Ragin
3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings 
10. 
Black in White Space: The Enduring Impact of Color in Everyday Life
by:
Elijah Anderson
4.12 avg rating — 120 ratings 11. 
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City
by:
St. Clair Drake
4.32 avg rating — 150 ratings 12. 
Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court 3.93 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
by:
Mario Luis Small
3.74 avg rating — 73 ratings 14. 
The Social Order of the Slum: Ethnicity and Territory in the Inner City 4.19 avg rating — 21 ratings
15. 
Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
by:
Elijah Anderson
3.85 avg rating — 1,722 ratings 
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Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn against Liberalism
by:
Jonathan Rieder
3.86 avg rating — 64 ratings 
24. 
Black Picket Fences : Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
by:
Mary Pattillo
3.95 avg rating — 294 ratings 25. 
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Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row
by:
Forrest Stuart
4.32 avg rating — 172 ratings 27. 
Black on the Block: The Politics of Race and Class in the City
by:
Mary Pattillo
4.06 avg rating — 172 ratings 28. 
Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown
by:
Javier Auyero
3.83 avg rating — 249 ratings 29. 
Detroit Story: Urban Decline and the Rise of Property Informality really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Urban Villagers: Group and Class in the Life of Italian-Americans
by:
Herbert J. Gans
4.09 avg rating — 97 ratings 34. 
Upsold: Real Estate Agents, Prices, and Neighborhood Inequality
by:
Max Besbris
4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings 
36. 
Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil 4.13 avg rating — 71 ratings
37. 
Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement
by:
Michael Méndez
4.06 avg rating — 35 ratings 38. 
Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs
by:
David Grazian
3.94 avg rating — 53 ratings 
40. 
Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering
by:
Josh Seim
3.78 avg rating — 36 ratings 41. 
Fútbol in the Park: Immigrants, Soccer, and the Creation of Social Ties
by:
David Trouille
4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings 42. 
American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto
by:
Sudhir Venkatesh
3.77 avg rating — 350 ratings