· What thi. I'm years late to the party, but On the Run is a tour de force. Based on ethnographic research done in the early s, Goffman describes the lives of a handful of young men and their families under the full repressive apparatus of the war on drugs/5. · Located close to the University of Pennsylvania, where Alice Goffman was an undergraduate when she began the fieldwork for this book, ‘6 th Street’ is an area of about five blocks. Modestly prosperous in the s and s, by the early s it had fallen on much harder times, though as Goffman says it was ‘not the poorest or the most dangerous neighbourhood in the large . · The book, On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City, is an ethnographic study of a black neighborhood in Philadelphia where, according to Goffman’s research, residents live in a mini Estimated Reading Time: 11 mins.
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries) Hardcover - 2 May by Alice Goffman (Author) › Visit Amazon's Alice Goffman Page. See search results for this author. Alice Goffman (Author) out of 5 stars ratings. Fugitive Life in an American City Alice Goffman Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged neighborhoods. "On the Run is riveting--a clear-headed and sobering account of the 'way it is' for too many of the nation's young black men who live in the killing fields called American cities. It reveals how the everyday lives of these men--their loved ones--are closely monitored and mined for evidence that is then used against them, exacerbating their alienation and fueling the prison-industrial complex.
Alice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in America is about young African-American boys and men on the run from the police in Philadelphia. The situation is a product of the United States’ skyrocketing incarceration rates—in the poor undereducated black neighborhood Goffman studies, something like 10% of the young men are incarcerated at any one time. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City by Alice Goffman. “On the Run is riveting--a clear-headed and sobering account of the 'way it is' for too many of the nation's young black men who live in the killing fields called American cities.
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