From Chicago to Bologna: the persistent importance of the Chicago School in American and Italian urban sociology / Gabriele Manella -- Global ethnography: lessons from the Chicago School / Victoria Reyes -- Becoming the city: teaching urban ethnography and mentoring urban ethnographers / Stefan Timmermans and Pamela J. Prickett -- Teaching and learning the craft: the construction of ethnographic objects / Katherine Jensen and Javier Auyero -- Place exploration: six tensions to better conceptualize place as a social actor in urban ethnography / Thomas Corcoran, Jennifer Abrams, and Jonathan R. Wynn -- Interaction order as cultural sociology within urban ethnography / Waverly Duck and Mitchell Kiefer -- Visibility is survival: the chocolate maps of black gay life in urban ethnography / Marcus Anthony Hunter and Terrell J.A. Winder -- The missing middle class: race, suburban ethnography, and the challenges of "studying up" / Karyn Lacy -- Black (American) girl in the Banlieue: doing race and ethnography as an American in France / Jean Beaman -- The gendered dynamics of urban ethnography: what the researcher's "location" means for the production of ethnographic knowledge / Rebecca Hanson -- The migrant ethnographer: when the field becomes home / James Farrer.

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