Analyzing interviews with hundreds of young people, Fine and Weis provide insights into their startling and often harrowing experiences. The papers of this book made it reflective when scanned. In The Unknown City Michelle Fine and Lois Weis offer a groundbreaking, theoretically sophisticated ethnography of the lives of young adults, ages 23 to 35, in two large East Coast cities. Fine and Weis point to what should be done on the national policy level and describe initiatives that serve as oases of hope in our cities today The Unknown City is sure to shape many key debates about policy and community. We hear their views on everything from the construction of "whiteness" and affirmative action to the economy, education, and the new public spaces of community hope. From discussions of black men's ideas on the reasons for inequality to domestic abuse among white working-class women, we see the gulfs that impede attempts to simplify the problems of young adults.
A major focus of the book is on the "fractures" in American society: how and why those of different races, ethnicities, and genders see the world - and each other - in very different ways. In The Unknown City Michelle Fine and Lois Weis offer a groundbreaking, theoretically sophisticated ethnography of the lives of young adults, ages 23 to 35, in two large East Coast cities. Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-328) and index
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