Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism

by Janice M. Irvine

Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits twentieth-century ethnographic studies of deviance, arguing that ethnographies that focus on marginal subcultures--ranging from Los Angeles hoboes to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California--produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly in the United States. Irvine demonstrates how the social scientists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472055380
• ISBN13: 9780472055388
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"