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9780520252714

Nightshift NYC

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520252714

  • ISBN10:

    0520252713

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-11-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

New York is the city that never sleeps. This luminous book peels back the cover of darkness over the city as it hums along in the night, revealing a hidden world populated by the thousands of women and men who work and live the nightshift. Written with beauty and grace,Nightshift NYCweaves together cultural critique, vivid reportage, and arresting photographs to trace the inverted logic of the city at night. Russell Leigh Sharman and Cheryl Harris Sharman spent a year interviewing and shadowing fry cooks and coffee jockeys, train conductors, cab hacks, and dozens of others who keep the city running when the sun goes down. Investigating familiar places such diners and delis, they explore some less familiar ones as well--taking us on a walking tour of homelessness in Manhattan, onto a fishing boat out of Brooklyn, and into other little-known corners of the night. Traveling past the threshold of voyeurism into the lives of real people, they depict a social space entirely apart--one that is highly structured and inherently subversive. Together, these stories open a compelling view on contemporary urban life and, along the way, reveal the soul of the city itself.

Author Biography

Russell Leigh Sharman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Brooklyn College.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Nightfallp. 1
One Big Familyp. 15
I'll Take My Chances on the Nightshiftp. 29
Our Own Little Cityp. 44
A Stillnessp. 57
Stay Awakep. 65
You Have to Give Up Somethingp. 75
Fulfilling My Dreamsp. 87
I Don't Know Where Is the Keysp. 97
All Night on the Streetp. 111
Call It a Nightp. 121
I Just Work Herep. 126
Everyone Is the Same Down Therep. 145
The Real Hard Corep. 155
I'm Here All Nightp. 166
Night Boat Weekendsp. 181
Night Fishingp. 188
Different Fish, Different Placesp. 202
Here Is Not My Homep. 219
Epilogue: Daybreakp. 231
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