Embattled Ethnics

Neither liar nor squealer, Jonathan Rieder is
something perhaps equally problematic in this
book: an ethnographer with an argument, reaching
for readers politically engaged. “Any coalition that
fails to understand the grievances that collected in
places like Canarsie all across America in the past
two decades will achieve neither justice nor incum-
bency,” he warns. The question isn’t whether one
agrees with that warning, as I ...