About this title: One of the most original books in years about contemporary urban life. For the last decade a dozen people have worked as street vendors on the Avenue of the Americas in Greenwich Village. All but one are black men. Hakim sells "Black Books" and mentors young men who come to his table. Marvin, who sells recycled magazines, gave up drinking and drugging and is now encouraging Ron to turn his life around. Ishmael is homeless; the police throw his property in the back of a garbage truck when he leaves the block to relieve himself. Joe Garbage "lays shit out" to earn his few dollars a day. To ...
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Description: Good. 2000-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Description: Good. 0374263558 Former library item may have library binding and show stamps, stickers or other marks. Items not meeting quality expectations may be returned. Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Very good but for underlining/marginalia on fewer than 10 pages; very light cover wear; no spine crease; binding tight; pages bright, odor-free; will pack securely, ship promptly with Delivery Confirmation. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. Reliable paperback. Some shelf wear to the covers. Slight scuff to the page edge. A few spots to the page edge. The text flows clearly from beginning to end. Tight binding. Clean looking. Enjoy this PRESENTABLE edition! read more
Description: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: SOME ] [ Writing: SOME ] [ Torn pages: NO ] [ Broken Seams: NO ] Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Pub Date: 12/20/2000 Binding: Paperback Pages: 416. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2000-12-20
ISBN-13:9780374527259ISBN:0374527253
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2000-12-20
ISBN-13:9780374527259ISBN:0374527253
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13:9780374527259ISBN:0374527253
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has minor wear, pages are clean and unmarked. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Just minor edgewear and tiny corner bend. Corner has been reinforced. Altogether exceptionally clean, lightly read. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Clean and tight-unused copy-Excellent! ! Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 416 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 1st American Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: FS&G, NY
Date Published: 1999
Description: Carter, Ovie, Photographer. Very Good + in Very Good Unclipped jacket. A bright, tight edition, DJ is lightly soiled from handling yet colorful; some ruffling at spine ends. Text is bumped at spine ends; snugly bound. Text is unmarked; crisp pages; dust marks at top of textbox. read more
Description: Very Good. 0374263558 Ex-library hard cover copy with light over all wear to the cover. There are usual x-lib markings through out the book. The pages are tight and clean with no markings. We ship fast and package well. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780374527259ISBN:0374527253
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780374527259ISBN:0374527253
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"I read this book during my Spring '09 semester. It was fantastic; Duneier's ethnographic work on the streets of Greenwich Village is simultaneously heartwarming & heart-breaking. The interactions and relationships he forms with these men and women are truly incredible to behold. Along with his narrative vignettes of daily life on the streets, he uses ethnographic theories about human interaction and relationships to back up his work."
"Read for a graduate social work class. A great read that provided for interesting classroom discussion. A quick read, and I will most likely read it again on my own. Follows some unique people...there are some parts from this book that I will never forget...just the daily strategies for survival on the city streets."
A sociologist hangs out with the homeless book dealers on 6th avenue in NYC and discovers an incredibly complex economy and society.
For instance, the sidewalk booksellers will often pay one homeless man (a "place holder") up to forty dollars a night to hold the best places for the next day's sales by sleeping on the sidewalk. In the morning the bookseller will then pay another homeless man (a "mover") to go fetch his books from a "storage provider," either a man sleeping in the subway or a man who is provided sleeping space inside a store as payment for guarding it, both of whom guard the books for the night. Then the bookseller will provide money for a "book watcher" to sit behind his tables while he searches for more books or magazines in recycling bins. The book watcher will then occasionally try to make money on the side by buying goods from pedlars and hawking them behind the book table.
The author also offers great insights into how the trade evolved and how it keeps homeless men above water."
"Street book vendors are one of the things I miss most about New York. This book produces a nuanced, moving, and intelligent account of a network of men who make their living selling books like this; participant observation is usually something that sets my teeth on edge and raises my hackles preemptively -- there's little that's more exploitative than visiting the Other and returning with a charming account of His Foreign Ways -- but Duneier is too careful, at once too empathetic and too aware of his own outsider status, to let that happen."
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