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Harlem world : doing race and class in contemporary Black America /

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 e...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jackson, John L., Jr., 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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  • 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.