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Serving the Street is a richly researched ethnography that adds to the burgeoning studies that focus on how well-intentioned whiteness reproduces durable inequalities. The lessons learned here are valuable for social justice oriented individuals and groups in that it implicitly questions the degree to which white allies can participate in antiracist social movements or day-to-day action where whiteness is simultaneously invisible and omnipresent. -- Daina Cheyenne Harvey * professor of sociology and anthropology, College of the Holy Cross *

Serving the Street is a richly researched ethnography that adds to the burgeoning studies that focus on how well-intentioned whiteness reproduces durable inequalities. The lessons learned here are valuable for social justice oriented individuals and groups in that it implicitly questions the degree to which white allies can participate in antiracist social movements or day-to-day action where whiteness is simultaneously invisible and omnipresent. -- Daina Cheyenne Harvey * professor of sociology and anthropology, College of the Holy Cross * Deeply researched and richly informed by the literature, Schneider takes us somewhere new—the hearts and minds of class-privileged white volunteers assisting the unhoused in St. Louis. Serving the Street powerfully exposes the tension between volunteers’ good intentions and their lack of racial and class reflexivity, revealing how a helping hand isn’t always as helpful as we imagine. -- Megan R. Underhill * associate professor of sociology, University of North Carolina Asheville *

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MATTHEW JEROME SCHNEIDER is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, a collaborating professor with the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, and the codirector of the Sustainability, Equity, and Action Laboratory. Situated in the areas of race and racism, environmental sociology, urban sociology, and community and civic engagement, his work has appeared in numerous outlets including Qualitative Sociology, Sociological Forum, Radical Teacher, Environmental Justice, and Inside Higher Ed.

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