Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist and ethnographer, Maurice P. During Professor and department chair of sociology at Princeton University, who 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 award for distinguished scholarly publication; he later wrote Sidewalk (1999), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the C. Wright Mills Award, and Ghetto: The Invention of a Place, the History of an Idea (2016), named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.
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Birth YearSourced to the subject's own account Nationality / CultureSourced to the subject's own account Defining ContributionSourced to the subject's own accountAn ethnographer whose books on race, respectability and urban street life, including Slim's Table and Sidewalk, established him as a leading figure in contemporary urban sociology. 1 Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own account Notable WorkSourced to the subject's own accountSlim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity (1992) 1 In the Other Atlases
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Mitchell Duneier is an American sociologist and ethnographer.
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American sociologist (born 1961)
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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.
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