| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-272) and index. |
| Summary |
Harlem is one of the most famous neighbourhoods in the world - a historic symbol of both black cultural achievement and of the rigid boundaries separating the rich from the poor. But as this book shows us, Harlem is far more culturally and economically diverse than its caricature suggests: through extensive fieldwork and interviews, John L. Jackson reveals a variety of social networks and class stratifications, and explores how African Americans interpret and perform different class identities in their everyday behaviour. |
| Contents |
CONTENTS; Preface; Introduction: Doing Harlem, Touring Harlemworld; 1. Making Harlem Black: Race, Place, and History in "African Americans' Africa"; 2. Class Histories and Class Theories in a Raceful Social World; 3. Birthdays, Basketball, and Breaking Bread: Negotiating with Class in Contemporary Black America; 4. Class(ed) Acts, or Class Is as Class Does; 5. White Harlem: Toward the Performative Limits of Blackness; 6. Cinematicus Ethnographicus: Race and Class in an Ethnographic Land of Make-Believe; Conclusion: Undoing Harlemworld; Notes; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs.
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African Americans. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Manners and customs. |
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African Americans -- Race identity -- New York (State) -- New York.
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African Americans -- Race identity. |
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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National Book Committee. |
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New York (N.Y.) -- Social conditions.
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Social classes -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Social classes. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Jackson, John L., Jr. Harlem world. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001 9780226389981 (DLC) 2001027871 (OCoLC)47023531 |
| ISBN |
9780226390000 (electronic book) |
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0226390004 (electronic book) |
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0226389995 (paperback) |
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