Harlemworld : Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America.

Harlemworld : Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America.

Harlem is one of the most famous neighborhoods 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 exte...

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Jackson Jr., John L.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Subjects:
African Americans > New York (State) > New York.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 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.

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