I've read both On the Run and Unequal City. They are both bad.
On the Run is a great work... the problem is it's a white woman's fiction of black life in west philly. Like if you accept that it's a white woman's fictionalized poverty porn then it's entertaining. It's just really irresponsible ethnography
I've read both On the Run and Unequal City. They are both bad.
On the Run is a great work... the problem is it's a white woman's fiction of black life in west philly. Like if you accept that it's a white woman's fictionalized poverty porn then it's entertaining. It's just really irresponsible ethnography
Alice is a very talented story teller. No one denies this. But as you say, her talents tend more towards fiction than ethnography.
I've read both On the Run and Unequal City. They are both bad.
On the Run is a great work... the problem is it's a white woman's fiction of black life in west philly. Like if you accept that it's a white woman's fictionalized poverty porn then it's entertaining. It's just really irresponsible ethnography
Alice is a very talented story teller. No one denies this. But as you say, her talents tend more towards fiction than ethnography.
she has a promising future in the fiction writing that most white women do who made careers fabricating s**t about black criminality. I heard linda fairstein's old jobs and board memberships are up for the taking
On The Run is fiction in my book .Having worked in the law for years I struggle to believe even 5% of her observations of law enforcement tactics.
i have no law enforcement background and i could wholly agree with this.
just as a woman who comes from a neighborhood like this i find it impossible to believe she wasn't f**king these men while living with them. like the book actually irritates me in her cloying attempts to convince the reader that they found her such an exceptionally cool white woman.
alice is not cool. at all. it's actually uncomfortable having a conversation with her bc she always seems on the verge of tears. i'm supposed to believe that a group of young black men she only knew thru tutoring their little brother just found her SUCH AN ALLY that they were like "you, white savior, are going to be one of us"
i mean the entire premise of her work makes no sense. these men are hiding from the law. her MERE PRESENCE as a petite white woman who looks NOTHING like the handful of white people still in west philly would draw unwanted attention to them. And we're to believe she was riding around with them in the car? this is an IMMEDIATE stop and frisk from PhillyPD
If you think Goffman's fabrications are minor, then you haven't been paying attention. Go back and look at the original anonymous expose. Whoever wrote that is a bad writer, but his evidence is solid. Alice cannot refute any of it.
And when taken to task by Lubet on her participation in the murder conspiracy, Alice simply changed her story. This is the mark of a liar.
Can someone post a link to this expose?
If you think Goffman's fabrications are minor, then you haven't been paying attention. Go back and look at the original anonymous expose. Whoever wrote that is a bad writer, but his evidence is solid. Alice cannot refute any of it.
And when taken to task by Lubet on her participation in the murder conspiracy, Alice simply changed her story. This is the mark of a liar.
Can someone post a link to this expose?