Sidewalk Book Review

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Life in the city is perplex when a book is what is worshipped. Sidewalk by Mitchell Duneier offers a visual portrait of a community in the shadows of public life. Duneier portrays the life of urban black men who infiltrated a stretch of lower Sixth Avenue. These men, frequently scavengers, vendors of used and discounted books and magazines that they find in the streets to make a living for themselves. Duneier follows the lives of these vendors for four decades to raise the awareness of the condition of their lives. An average urban residence or tourists become truly unaware of the city infested with feces and urine because of the lack of bathroom access and the denying of service because of their appearance and smell. Duneier has done a qualitative