The Other Side of Middletown: Exploring Muncie's African American Community

by Luke Eric Lassiter

Book Overview

Prompted by the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the famous community study by Robert S. Lynd and Helen Merrell Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, the authors initiated this project to reveal the unrecorded historical and contemporary life of Middletown, a well-known pseudonym for the Midwestern city of Muncie, Indiana. As a collaboration of community and campus, this book recounts the early efforts of Hurley Goodall...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759104840
• ISBN13: 9780759104846
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Altamira Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"