Cincinnati's East End river community has been home to
generations of working-class people. This racially mixed community
has roots that reach back as far as seven generations. But the
community is vulnerable. Developers bulldoze "raggedy" but
affordable housing to build upscale condos, even as East Enders
fight to preserve the community by participating in urban
development planning controlled by powerful outsiders.
This book portrays how East Enders practice the preservation of
community. Drawing on more than six years of anthropological
research and advocacy in the East End, Rhoda Halperin argues for
redefining community not merely as a place, but as a set of
culturally embedded and class-marked practices that give priority
to caring for children and the elderly, procuring livelihood, and
providing support for family, friends, and neighbors. These
practices create the structures of community within the larger
urban power structure.
Halperin uses different genres to weave the voices of East
Enders throughout the book. Poems and narratives offer poignant
insights into the daily struggles against impersonal market forces
that work against the struggle for livelihood. This firsthand
account questions commonly held assumptions about working-class
people. In a fresh way, it reveals the cultural construction of
marginality, from the viewpoints of both "real East Enders" and the
urban power structure.
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