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Mitchell Duneier, "Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea"
Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist currently Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology at Princeton University and regular Visiting Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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- Mitchell Duneier Ghetto The Invention of a Place the History of an Idea
- Moty cristal mahdee jaber abu zehriya megan hallahan mitchell duneier and amaney jamal
- Selected publications
- References
Duneier earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1992. His first book, Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity, won the 1994 American Sociological Association's award for Distinguished Scholarly Publication. He is also the author of Sidewalk (1999), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award. In 2016, he published Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea with Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Professor Duneier taught at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the City University of New York (where he regularly teaches in a visiting capacity) before joining the Princeton faculty. He served on the original advisory board for Public Radio International's This American Life.
He is the step-brother of Harvard political scientist Gary King.