Sudhir Venkatesh

Author and Professor of Sociology at Columbia University

Sudhir Venkatesh appears in the following:

New York's Underground Economy

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia professor of sociology and the author of Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy, offers a sociologist's view of New York's illicit markets -- for drugs, sex and undocumented labor -- and how they differ from Chicago's.

 

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The Year of Protest, Except Here?

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

The world witnessed many protests around the globe this year but none here in the US. Sudhir Venkatesh, professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Columbia University, author of the "Underground" column for The Daily and author of Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets discusses why protests around the world have not spread to the US (yet?).

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Uncommon Indicators: The Underground Economy

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Sudhir Venkatesh, professor of sociology and African-American studies and director of research at the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University and author of Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor and Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the ...

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The Color of Money: How to undo poverty

Friday, April 17, 2009

Today we close our series “The Color of Money,” which has been an examination of how the economic downturn is affecting minorities. We’re ending the conversation with a look at what i...

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A Sociologist’s Turn as a Gang Leader

Monday, January 14, 2008

For seven years, sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside and found a complex, tightly organized society bound by friendship and force. His new book is Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets.

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