| Middletown Redux Contributor(s): Lassiter, Luke Eric (Author), Goodall, Hurley (Author), Campbell, Elizabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 075910669X ISBN-13: 9780759106697 Publisher: Altamira Press OUR PRICE: $37.05 Product Type: DVD-Video Published: July 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 9.3" W x 10.9" (1.50 lbs) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |