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Inner-city Representation

Inner-City Representation is a literary and cultural construct within the study of Urban Black Literature and Urban Fiction that delineates the portrayal, narration, and symbolic encoding of socio-spatial experiences, identities, and structures characteristic of marginalized urban communities, distinguishing itself through its focus on the ideological, aesthetic, and historical specificity of life in economically distressed, racially segregated city environments.

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85

Authors

57

Institutions

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2017–2026

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Publications

71

Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular.

Doris R. Entwisle, William Labov · Social Forces · 1975 · 934 citations

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Language in the inner city studies in the Black English vernacular

1977 · 464 citations

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Scrutinizing the Street: Poverty, Morality, and the Pitfalls of Urban Ethnography<i>Sidewalk</i>. By Mitchell  Duneier. New York: Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 1999. Pp. 383. $27.00 (cloth); $15.00 (paper).<i>Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City</i>. By Elijah  Anderson. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999. Pp. 352. $14.95 (paper).<i>No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City</i>. By Katherine  Newman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation and Knopf, 1999. Pp. 401. $15.00 (paper).

Loïc Wacquant · American Journal of Sociology · 2002 · 453 citations

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Place-making and Place Maintenance: Performativity, Place and Belonging among the Middle Classes

Michaela Benson, Emma Jackson · Sociology · 2012 · 195 citations

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The Cultural meaning of urban space

Choice Reviews Online · 1993 · 190 citations

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Authors

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  1. DR
    Diane Reay

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 307 citations

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  2. BR
    Brian Robson

    University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 75 citations

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  3. JA
    John Agnew

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  4. JS
    Joel Schwartz

    Harvard University, United States

    2 publications · 88 citations

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  5. EJ
    Emma Jackson

    Goldsmiths University of London, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 195 citations

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Institutions

57

  1. Temple University

    Philadelphia, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    75 citations

  2. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    482 citations

  3. Queen's University Belfast

    Belfast, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    52 citations

  4. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    50 citations

  5. University of the West Indies

    Saint Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  6. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    23 citations

  7. University of the Witwatersrand

    Johannesburg, South Africa

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  8. University of Ulster

    Coleraine, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

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Venues

  1. Progress in Human Geography

    9 publications · 215 citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 4 publications · 378 citations

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  3. Urban Studies

    3 publications · 259 citations

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  4. Race Ethnicity and Education

    2 publications · 72 citations

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  5. Sociology

    2 publications · 335 citations

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