The ANNALS of the AAPSS 642

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, July 2012: Volume 642

Bringing Fieldwork Back In: Contemporary Urban Ethnographic Research

Preface
Elijah Anderson

The Iconic Ghetto
Elijah Anderson

The Legacy of Racial Caste: An Exploratory Ethnography
Elijah Anderson, Duke W. Austin, Craig Lapriece Holloway, and Vani S. Kulkarni

“An Air of Expectancy”: Class, Crisis, and the Making of Manhood at a Historically Black College for Men
Saida Grundy

Bonds of Brotherhood: Emotional and Social Support among College Black Men
Brandon A. Jackson

Abductive Ethnography of Practice in Highly Uncertain Conditions
Vida Bajc

“Scrub”: Using Multi-Site Analysis to Analyze the Status System among Basketball Players
Scott N. Brooks

Suspending Narrative Engagements: The Case of Pick-Up Basketball
Michael F. DeLand

“The Camera Rolls”: Using Third-Party Video in Field Research
Nikki Jones and Geoffrey Raymond

An Ethnographic Portrait of a Precarious Life: Getting By on Even Less
Waverly O. Duck

Down and Out in Atlantic City
Jacob Avery

The Making and Unmaking of Local Democracy in an Indian Village
Vani S. Kulkarni

“Call Me Mama”: An Ethnographic Portrait of an Employer of Undocumented Workers
Esther Chihye Kim

The Presentation of Self in Emigration: Eastern European Women in Italy
Martina Cvajner

“Influx”: Black Urban Women’s Migration to Rural Pennsylvania
Betty L. McCall

“Litterers”: How Objects of Physical Disorder Are Used to Construct Subjects of Social Disorder in a Suburb
Alexandra K. Murphy

Reflections of Self from Missing Things: How People Move On from Losing Possessions
Brandon Berry

Wounded: Life after the Shooting
Jooyoung Lee

Ethnography’s Expanding Warrants
Jack Katz