A dramatic record of how race is still a key predictor of whether or not some young Americans will have a chance at a 'pursuit of happiness. The level of detail in this book and Goffmans ability to understand her subjects. Goffman is now an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a vocal advocate for change in America. On the Run documents a world of predation and law-of-the-jungle mores, riven with violence and betrayal. On the Run as its meant to be heard, narrated by Robin Miles. In it, Goffman weaves groundbreaking research into a narrative amplifying neglected and often-ignored voices into a stirring, personal indictment of the social, economic and political forces that unwittingly conspire to push entire communities to the margins of society. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City By Alice Goffman University of Chicago Press. Goffman spent six years in the community, the work transforming into her dissertation at Princeton and then into the book, On the Run. She lived side-by-side with a group of young men in one of the US’s most distressed communities, experiencing a troubling and rarely discussed side of urban policing - the beatings, late night raids and body searches that systematically pit young men against authority. As an undergraduate studying sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, Alice Goffman was inspired to write her senior thesis about the lives of the young people living in the historic African-American neighborhood that surrounded the school.
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