Floating City

by Sudhir Venkatesh

  Margot Kerry and, 180–81

  Mortimer and, 50–54

  Times Square and, 76

  transition to normal life, 245–48

  white women in, 158

  sex industry clients, 186, 194–95

  emotional exchange and, 187–88, 193–95

  Jonathan, 192–95

  Martin, 186–89, 191–95, 203–6, 250, 257–58

  money exchange as protection for, 187–88

  Nate, 192–95

  Sex Workers’ Project, Urban Justice Center, 2, 43, 47, 71, 73, 83, 175

  Shakespeare, William, 233

  Shine, 1–6, 12, 16, 23–25, 35–37, 42, 54–59, 62–63, 69–71, 98–103, 126–32, 138–43, 143–46, 155–58, 162, 175–77, 179–80, 196, 207–14, 233, 234, 242–43, 255–58, 264–73

  Analise and, 7–13, 101, 215, 241, 256, 272

  art galleries and, 2–6, 101, 214–15, 241, 265–66, 273

  cocaine business of, 1, 4, 9–11, 58, 127, 129–32, 138–43, 207–14, 241, 243, 273

  conflict resolution and, 172

  Evalina and, 10, 12, 214

  family of, 155–57, 265

  father of, 156

  geographical boundaries and, 102

  at hotel bar, 126–29

  J.B. and, 255

  Juan and, 157–58, 165, 207–13, 237–39

  mother of, 156–57, 210

  as pimp, 99

  staff of, 138–43, 157–58, 207–8, 231–32, 240

  S.V.’s meeting of, 1, 30–35

  S.V.’s relationship with, 103

  white clients and, 101–3, 141, 174, 209–10, 214

  Shoomi, 66–68, 90, 94

  Smith, Neil, 177

  snowball sampling, 151

  Social Security, 77

  Society of Fellows, 48

  social capital, 165, 167, 209–10, 249, 253

  social classes, 145, 176

  low income, 175, 176

  middle and upper, 176

  moving across, 165, 176–78, 201, 202, 238, 242

  new, 177–78

  sociology, sociologists, 23, 28–29, 37, 73, 87, 143–45, 195, 201, 203, 206, 250, 271

  at Columbia, 27–28

  ecological viewpoint in, 38, 145

  ethical research methods and, 179–80

  ethnography, 1, 39

  Chicago style and, 23–24

  globalization studied by, 38

  moving across social classes and, 165, 201

  New York style and, 23–25

  poor as viewed by, 23, 143–44, 201

  small n problem in, 40, 184, 250, 252, 263, 271–72

  snowball sampling in, 151

  S.V.’s documentary and, 166–67

  Soho, 3, 132, 149

  squeegee men, 68, 69, 72

  State of Grace (film), 55

  strip clubs, 6, 44–47, 49–50, 185, 202, 261–62

  Margot Kerry and, 180–81

  Mortimer and, 50–54

  Sula, 80–83, 91

  Swidler, Ann, 213

  There Are No Children Here (Kotlowitz), 105

  third culture, 174

  Times Square, 76

  Tito, 211, 237

  Tori, 185–86

  Truly Disadvantaged, The (Wilson), 29

  Tuskegee trials, 179

  underground economy, 40, 86, 92

  brokers in, 173–74

  in Chicago, 5, 40

  connecting to overworld, 178

  connectivity in, 172–73

  floating communities and, 53–54

  legal system and, 171

  role of, in lives of middle class and wealthy, 182

  social relations in, 52–54

  speculation about, 39

  trust and confidentiality in, 138

  underground economy in New York, 1–2, 24, 41–42, 61–62, 86–87, 98, 177, 242

  apartment renting and, 84

  bank accounts and, 83, 84, 87

  black market, 76, 137, 176, 177, 233, 242, 243

  wealthy young philanthropists and, 104

  day laborers in, 72–73

  drugs, see drugs, drug dealing

  as floating community, 53–54, 58

  in Harlem, 36–37, 39–40, 175

  health care and, 83, 84

  sex work, see sex industry

  Social Security and, 77

  spread into surrounding world, 71

  violence in, 89, 196–97

  University of Chicago, 5, 27–29, 31

  Urban Justice Center, 61

  Sex Workers’ Project at, 2, 43, 47, 71, 73, 83, 175

  Venkatesh, Sudhir (author):

  arrival at Columbia, 27, 29–30, 261

  Bearman and, 28, 130, 167–68

  Chicago public housing documentary of, 10, 166–67, 179, 180

  Chicago sociology background of, 23–24, 30, 86, 104, 130, 132–33, 144, 166, 178, 250

  Clark and, 30, 32, 33

  at Columbia, 130, 166, 185, 269

  as documentary filmmaker, 179–82, 185, 229–30, 262–63, 268–69

  Gang Leader for a Day, 1, 29, 40

  panic attacks of, 150–51

  research grant of, 185

  separation and divorce of, 80–81, 134, 151, 167–69, 188, 189, 191, 194, 217, 250

  small n problem in research of, 40, 184, 250, 252, 263, 271–72

  at University of Chicago, 5, 27–29, 31

  at wine tasting, 48–49, 133–34, 224

  Village Voice, 86–87

  violence, 89, 196–97

  vomiting, 161–62

  Vonnie, 110–25, 135–39, 141, 145, 162

  Wallace, Terry, 163

  Wall Street, 4, 63, 129, 203

  Waters, Mary, 95

  webs of significance, 25

  welfare, 106

  Silvia and, 106, 108, 109

  White, Harrison, 28

  Williams, Carter, 105–10, 132

  Williamsburg, 114

  Wilson, William Julius, 28–29

  wine tasting, 48–49, 133–34, 224

  Winters, Betsy, 105–10, 132–34

  Winters, Michael, 105–10, 132

  women’s shelter, 123

  World Trade Center attack, 97