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The Other Side of Middletown

Exploring Muncie's African American Community
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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.

Author Biography:

Luke Eric Lassiter is Professor of Humanities and Anthropology and director of the graduate humanities program at Marshall University Graduate College in South Charleston, WV. Hurley Goodall is a former Indiana state legislator and recipient of the Distinguished Hoosier Award from Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon. Elizabeth Campbell is an independent folklorist who specializes in community-based arts and history. Michelle Natasya Johnson is in the anthropology department at Ball State University.
Release date Australia
May 5th, 2004
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Contributions by Abigail Delpha
  • Contributions by Anne Kraemer
  • Contributions by Ashley Moore
  • Contributions by E Bruce Geelhoed
  • Contributions by Michelle Anderson
  • Contributions by Yolanda T Moses
Pages
324
Dimensions
166x227x21
ISBN-13
9780759104846
Product ID
2228432

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