An Italian Lady goes to the Bronx

An extraordinary ethnographic study about an Italian woman who after living for years in New York City, and teaching at a University in Milan, decides to explore the South Bronx. The book, which sites itself at the crossroads of the new journalism and urban ethnography, recounts the encounters and clashes between the author, her culture, her expectations and the various personalities who guide her through the realities of daily life in the Bronx. Marianella Sclavi follows these people throughout the course of their daily lives,and while doing so, elaborates what she calls a "humor-based methodology for city planners, teachers, sociologists and administrators."