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Soulside : Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community Paperback - 2004
by Ulf Hannerz
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- Title Soulside : Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community
- Author Ulf Hannerz
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 236
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 2004
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0226315762I4N00
- ISBN 9780226315768 / 0226315762
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 10 x 7 x 0.65 in (25.40 x 17.78 x 1.65 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Washington (D.C.) - Race relations, African Americans - Washington (D.C.) -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004044094
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.896
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From the rear cover
For an outsider, the prospect of blending into the fabric of an urban African American ghetto might be an intimidating one. But for a Scandinavian scholar, the idea of getting to know one of Washington DC's toughest neighborhoods from the inside during the racially tense, late 1960s, could well have seemed impossible. Conducting fieldwork in and around Winston Street, Ulf Hannerz did just that. Soulside details the everyday lives of the ghetto inhabitants he observed and participated with during this period, revealing their beliefs and expectations and the diversity of their life styles. Originally published 35 years ago, Soulside became an urban anthropological classic. The book helped to dispel many false impressions about ghetto life and questioned the idea, precipitated in the influential Moynihan Report and in notions of a "culture of poverty," that the poor had chosen to lead the lives they do. Raising central moral and political questions about American society in a turbulent period, Soulside became an example of public engagement in anthropology. In a new afterword, Ulf Hannerz discusses the book's place in the debates of the time and its relevance to current arguments in anthropology.