Luke Bergmann is a research director at the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness Promotion and an adjunct faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
"In prose that is equally eloquent and enlightening, Luke Bergmann
brings to the surface the lives of two young men living in a place
that is regarded by too many people as a forgotten city."
--Alford A. Young, Jr., Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Associate
Professor, Sociology and Afroamerican and African Studies,
University of Michigan"Luke Bergmann sometimes risks life and limb
to bring us firsthand the lives of young people who mainstream
media and academic research have ignored--except for the occasional
crime story or impersonal policy brief. Getting Ghost is a journey
worth taking . . . It sets a new standard for documentary
reportage."
--Sudhir Venkatesh, author of Gang Leader for a Day and Off the
Books
"[Bergmann] chronicles the drug trading, the risks and rewards, and
the demarcations between the city and suburbs even as he witnessed
suburbanites come into the city to buy drugs."
--Booklist
"Not just illustrative and emotive, this pummeling, immersive
social text is grounded in street-level reportage and seeded with
wisdom."
--Kirkus Reviews
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