A reading list created by faculty at Swarthmore College, intended to serve as a resource for faculty teaching courses in and on the city and for students researching or working in Philadelphia.
Discourse and Destruction: The City of Philadelphia versus MOVE by Robin E. Wagner-Pacifici
ISBN: 9780226869773
Publication Date: 1994-02-17
Available in print across the Trico.
F158.9.N4 W34 1994
Dynamics of Ethnic Identity: Three Asian American Communities in Philadelphia by Jae-Hyup Lee
ISBN: 0815331185
Publication Date: 1998-09-01
Available in print at Swarthmore and Haverford.
F158.9.O6 L44 1998
Faith on the Avenue: Religion on a City Street by Katie Day
ISBN: 9780199860029
Publication Date: 2014-01-07
Available in print at Swarthmore.
BL65.C57 D39 2014
From Paesani to White Ethnics: The Italian Experience in Philadelphia by Stefano Luconi
ISBN: 9780791448588
Publication Date: 2001-02-01
Available in print across the Trico.
F158.9.I8 L83 2001
From Puerto Rico to Philadelphia: Puerto Rican Workers and Postwar Economies by Carmen Teresa Whalen
ISBN: 9781566398367
Publication Date: 2001-02-15
Available in print at Haverford and Swarthmore.
F158.9.P85 W53 2001
Global Philadelphia: Immigrant Communities Old and New by Ayumi Takenaka (Editor); Mary Johnson Osirim (Editor)
ISBN: 9781439900123
Publication Date: 2010-04-28
Available in print and online across the Trico.
F158.9.A1 G55 2010
Marketing Schools, Marketing Cities by Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara
ISBN: 9780226016658
Publication Date: 2013-04-23
Available in print at Bryn Mawr and online across the Trico.
Nature's Entrepot: Philadelphia's urban sphere and its environmental thresholds by Brian C. Black; Michael J. Chiarappa (Editor)
ISBN: 9780822944171
Publication Date: 2012-11-16
Available in print at Swarthmore, Bryn Mawr, and Haverford.
HT243.U62 P44 2012
On the Make: the Hustle of Urban Nightlife by David Grazian
ISBN: 9780226305677
Publication Date: 2008-01-15
Available in print and online across the Trico.
HQ799.73.P55 G73 2008
Philadelphia Divided: Politics in the City of Brotherly Love by James Wolfinger
ISBN: 9780807831496
Publication Date: 2007-11-26
Available in print across the Trico.
F158.5 .W65 2007
Philadelphia Gentlemen: the Making of a National Upper Class by E. Digby Baltzell
ISBN: 9780887387890
Publication Date: 1989-01-01
Available in print across the Trico.
F158.3 .B3 1979
Philadelphia: Neighborhoods, Division, and Conflict in a Postindustrial City by Carolyn Adams; David Bartelt; David Elesh; Ira Goldstein; Nancy Kleniewski; William Yancey
ISBN: 9781566390781
Publication Date: 1993-03-10
Available in print across the Trico.
HN80.P5 P477 1991
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Philly War Zone by Kevin Purcell
Call Number: HN80.P5 P87 2012
ISBN: 9781465350787
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Available in print at Swarthmore.
Promises I Can Keep: why poor women put motherhood before marriage by Kathryn Edin; Maria Kefalas
ISBN: 0520241134
Publication Date: 2005-03-08
Available in print at Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr, and online across the TriCo.
Puritan Boston and Quaker Philadelphia by E. Digby Baltzell (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9781560008309
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Available in print across the Trico.
F73.3 .B33
Race, poverty, and unemployment task force: interim report by Petrowsky, Michael
Call Number: f F158.52 .P5 v.10
Publication Date: 1981
Available in print at Bryn Mawr.
Reshaping Ethnic and Racial Relations in Philadelphia by Judith Goode; Jo A. Schneider
ISBN: 9781566391412
Publication Date: 1994-05-12
Available in print across the Trico.
F158.9.A1 G66 1994
Restructuring the Philadelphia Region by Carolyn Teich Adams; David Bartelt; David Elesh; Ira Goldstein
ISBN: 9781592138968
Publication Date: 2008-08-28
Available in print at Haverford and Bryn Mawr, and online across the Trico.
Social Capital in the City: community and civic life in Philadelphia by Richardson Dilworth (Editor)
Call Number: HN80.P5 S64 2006
ISBN: 1592133444
Publication Date: 2006-06-28
Available in print across the Trico.
South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories, and the Melrose Diner by Murray Dubin
Call Number: f F158.68.S58 D83 1996
ISBN: 1566394295
Publication Date: 1996-06-03
Available in print at Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr.
Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community by Elijah Anderson
ISBN: 9780226018164
Publication Date: 1992-11-15
Available in print across the Trico.
HN80.P5 A53 1990
The Cosmospolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson
ISBN: 9780393340518
Publication Date: 2012-03-12
Available in print across the Trico.
HT153 .A53 2011
The Gift of Education by Norman A. Newberg; Michelle Fine (Foreword by)
ISBN: 0791466191
Publication Date: 2005-10-01
Available in print at Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr.
LC4093.P5 N48 2006
The Making of an American High School: The Credentials Market and Central High School of Philadelphia by David F. Labaree
ISBN: 9780300054699
Publication Date: 1992-01-29
Available in print across the Trico.
LD7501.P492 L33 1988
The Other Philadelphia Story: How Local Congregations Support Quality of Life in Urban America by Ram A. Cnaan; Stephanie C. Boddie (As told to); Charlene C. McGrew (As told to); Jennifer J. Kang (As told to)
ISBN: 9780812239492
Publication Date: 2006-10-13
Available online across the Trico.
The Philadelphia Negro by W. E. B. Du Bois; Elijah Anderson (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0812215737
Available in print and online across the Trico.
Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia by Matthew J. Countryman
ISBN: 9780812220025
Publication Date: 2007-06-12
Available in print across the Trico.
F158.9.N4 C68 2006
Voices from Marshall Street: Jewish Life in a Philadelphia Neighborhood, 1920-1960 by Elaine K. Ellison; Elaine M. Jaffe
ISBN: 9780940159259
Publication Date: 1994-02-01
Available in print at Swarthmore and Haverford.
F158.9.J5 E45 1994
W. E. B. du Bois, Race, and the City by Michael B. Katz (Editor); Thomas J. Sugrue (Editor)