Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor
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| Sorry...but you did not quite get the lives of these people right. The author simply glazed the surface of the reality of some of these people and made it extremely simplistic. But can you blame him when he has no vested interest in this community. Furthermore, he is like any other person coming into a community and trying to get a story right. As a sociologist he should know that he went over the limit trying to explain a neighborhood and racial group that he knows nothing about and will never be able to genuinely identify with. A professor of African-American studies does not make you African-American. Unfortunately any BLACK professor of African-American studies would have offered a more well-rounded story simply because they are BLACK. Basically, this is as if an African American professor went to tell the story of a ghetto in India. If I saw one more story about someone fixing a car, I was going to just crack up. I live on the south side of Chicago (the south side is not all bad as many have been extremely misinformed...Barack Obama, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson and a host of other wonderful normal, hardworking, non-famous black women and men live on the south side as well) and have worked in this fictional "Maquis Park" and it is not this simple or that different from any so-called underground economy or ghetto. His attempt was laughable, but expected. |
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