| Description |
xiv, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: 2001. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"With Harlemworld, John L. Jackson, Jr., uncovers a Harlem that is far more complex and diverse then its caricature suggests. Many experts believe that black America consists of two geographically distinct populations: a neglected underclass living in hopeless urban poverty, and a more successful suburban middle class of college graduates and thriving professionals. Through extensive fieldwork and interviews with residents of Harlem, Jackson explodes these presumptions. Harlemworld probes the everyday interactions of Harlemites with their black coworkers, friends, neighbors, acquaintances, and relatives, and shows how their social networks are often more class stratified and varied then many social analysis believe."--Jacket. |
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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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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- 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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| ISBN |
0226389995 paperback |
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