On the Run : Fugitive Life in an American City Paperback / softback
by Alice Goffman
Part of the Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries series
Paperback / softback
Description
Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods.
Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing.
Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance - some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices.
All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape.
While Goffman does not deny the problems of the drug trade, and the violence that often accompanies it, through her gripping accounts of daily life in the forgotten neighborhoods of America's cities, she makes it impossible for us to ignore the very real human costs of our failed response - the blighting of entire neighborhoods, and the needless sacrifice of whole generations.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:23/04/2015
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- ISBN:9780226275406
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
- Publication Date:23/04/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780226275406
