‘Doin’ the Hustle’: Constructing the Ethnographer in the American Ghetto

Ethnography

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 91-111

  Venkatesh, Sudhir ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

black American ghetto; fieldwork relations; gangs; hustling; image of fieldworker; informants; urban poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996218524     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138102003001004     Document Type: Article

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