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Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie's African American Community

Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie's African American Community

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAnthropology

ISBN10: 0759104840
ISBN13: 9780759104846
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: May 5 2004
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Prompted by the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the famous community study by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, the authors initiated this project to reveal the unrecorded historical and contemporary life of Middletown, a well-known pseudonym for the Midwestern city of Muncie, Indiana. As a collaboration of community and campus, this book recounts the early efforts of Hurley Goodall to develop a community history and archive that told the story of the African American community, and rectify the representation of small town America as exclusively white. The authors designed and implemented a collaborative ethnographic field project that involved intensive interviews, research, and writing between community organizations, local experts, ethnographers, and teams of college students. This book is a unique model for collaborative research, easily accessible to students. It will be a valuable resource for instructors in anthropology, creative writing, sociology, community research, and African American studies.

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