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Reviewed on November 15, 2001
Offered as the first of a two-part ethnographic field project aimed at identifying and understanding racial differences in everyday action, this work blends participant observation, interviews, and general social research in an introduction, conclusion, and six brief essays. Starting with a brief history of New York City's Harlem, Jackson, a postdoctoral fellow in cultural anthropology at Harvard, probes popular beliefs and folk the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More