Harlem World: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America,9780226389998

Harlem World: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America

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ISBN13: 9780226389998
ISBN10: 0226389995
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-04-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary

Harlem is one of the most famous neighborhoods in the worlda 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 extensive fieldwork and interviews, John L. Jackson reveals a variety of social networks and class stratifications, and explores how African Americans interpret and perform different class identities in their everyday behavior.

Author Biography

John L. Jackson Jr. is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction: Doing Harlem, Touring Harlemworld 1(16)
Making Harlem Black: Race, Place, and History in ``African Americans' Africa''
17(38)
Class Histories and Class Theories in a Raceful Social World
55(33)
Birthdays, Basketball, and Breaking Bread: Negotiating with Class in Contemporary Black America
88(35)
Class(ed) Acts, or Class Is as Class Does
123(36)
White Harlem: Toward the Performative Limits of Blackness
159(32)
Cinematicus Ethnographicus: Race and Class in an Ethnographic Land of Make-Believe
191(32)
Conclusion: Undoing Harlemworld 223(10)
Notes 233(40)
Index 273

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