Sidewalk
Mitchell Duneier with Ovie Carter (photographer)
Presents the lives of poor African-American men who make their subsistence wages by selling used goods on the streets of Greenwich Village in New York; and discusses how they interact with passing pedestrians, police officers, and each other.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus ans Giroux
- Year
- 2001
- ISBN-13
- 9780374526146
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Urban povertyStreet vendorsRace relations
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