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Author Dennis, Rutledge M

Title Finding the African Americans That Middletown Left Out : the Field Notes of a Sociologist
Published Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (533 pages)
Contents Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword by Rutledge M. Denis; Preface by Susan R. Trencher; Acknowledgements; Introduction by Hugh Gusterson; Chapter 1: Entering the Field (1980); Chapter 2: First Acquaintances; Chapter 3: Getting to Know the Community; Chapter 4: Getting Started: Student Workers, Background Research and Networking; Chapter 5: Conversations, Opinions, and Confidences; Chapter 6: Searching for Self: Religion and Conversion, Black Issues and Identity; Chapter 7: Interviewing in Earnest; Chapter 8: Wrapping Up and Leave-Taking; Conclusion; Afterword; Index
Summary The author provides journals of field work, and interviews with the African American members of a community depicted in a famous sociological study, in which they were previously ignored. Dr. Dennis lives in the community and carefully annotates his findings by reporting on the religious, political, educational, and ethnic beliefs, values, and behaviors displayed by members of the community
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Subject African Americans -- Middle West -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Case studies
African Americans -- Indiana -- Muncie -- Social conditions -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African Americans -- Social conditions
Gender & Ethnic Studies.
Social Sciences.
Ethnic & Race Studies.
SUBJECT Muncie (Ind.) -- History -- 20th century
Subject Indiana -- Muncie
Middle West
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773411173
0773411178