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Alice Goffman’s On the Run has become one of the most controversial books published in sociology in many years. Her moving account of several young Black men and their legal entanglements has raised questions about how whites represent Blacks in their research, what obligations researchers have to avoid illegal activities of their own, and, most importantly, about the character of truth in ethnographic research.
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Zussman, R. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: On the Run and Its Critics. Soc 53, 436–443 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-016-0039-z
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