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Living Black - Social Life in an African American Neighborhood (Paperback)
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Living Black - Social Life in an African American Neighborhood (Paperback)
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Living Black breaks the stereotype of poor African American
neighborhoods as dysfunctional ghettos of helpless and hopeless
peopleDespite real poverty, the community described in Living
Black-the historic North End of Champaign, Illinois-is truly a
neighborhood, with a vibrant social life, wide-ranging friendships,
and strong ties between youth and adults and among multiple
generations of community residents, lending a hand to neighbors in
need. But it operates on its own terms-valuing nonjudgmental
attitudes and individualism, and stressing acceptance of the
consequences of personal behavior. Teenage mothers aren't derided,
adolescents who drop out of school aren't ridiculed, and parolees
and ex-cons aren't scorned. The North End was settled in the late
nineteenth century by descendants of slaves who were seeking
employment at the local university. Anthropologist Mark Fleisher
offers a window into its daily life at the end of the twentieth
century, particularly through the stories of Mo and Memphis
Washington, who fight to sustain a stable home for their children,
and of Burpee, a local man who has returned to the North End to
rebuild his life after years of crime and punishment in Chicago.
Living Black is based on six years of Fleisher's firsthand
participant observation in the North End. Earlier studies of the
North End, conducted by black graduate students at the University
of Illinois in the 1930s and 1960s, indicate that the community
Fleisher found in the 1990s carried forward out of slavery a
culture of resilience, intergenerational social and economic
support, an ability to cope with and adjust to conditions of
privation, and a climate of positive interracial relationships
between the North End's black residents and the predominantly white
university community and local law enforcement agencies.
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