Rebuilding Shattered Worlds : Creating Community by Voicing the Past

"An ethnography of the ways displaced residents remember the ethnic diversity of their neighborhood in a small city in eastern Pennsylvania destroyed in the name of urban renewal, where memories, linguistic patterns, and material artifacts continue to animate people's everyday lives"-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Andrea L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln, UNITED STATES : UNP - Nebraska, 2016-10-01 00:00:00.0.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Urban renewal > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Ethnic relations.
Collective memory.
Anthropological linguistics.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Urban renewal > Social aspects > Pennsylvania > Easton (Northampton County)
Anthropological linguistics > Pennsylvania > Easton (Northampton County)
Collective memory > Pennsylvania > Easton (Northampton County)
Pennsylvania > Easton (Northampton County)
Easton (Northampton County, Pa.) > Social conditions.
Easton (Northampton County, Pa.) > Ethnic relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Terminology and Transcription Conventions; 1. Ethnography of the Expelled; 2. The Language of Blight; 3. Narrating Diversity; 4. Voices from the Past; 5. The Material of Memory; 6. Nostalgia as Engine of Change; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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