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September, 2006
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The Other Side of Middletown
Exploring Muncie's African American Community

Edited by Luke Eric Lassiter, Hurley Goodall, Elizabeth Campbell, and Michelle Natasya Johnson
(Lanham, Md.: Alta Mira Press, 2004. Illustrations, notes, appendices, select bibliography, index. Clothbound, $75.00; paperbound, $29.95.)

Borrowing the framework of Robert and Helen Lynd's 1929 classic Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, this recent collaborative ethnography takes the reader into the heart of the present-day African American community in Muncie, Indiana. Based upon 150 hours of interviews of sixty, mostly middle-aged, residents, conducted by fourteen black and white Ball State University undergraduates, the book is filled with the past and present life experiences of these people, their family members, their friends, and their neighbors. Part memoir, part chronicle, The Other Side of Middletown tells in poignant and sometimes startling detail of the small and large moments of life at work, at home, at school, and at church, as well as in the realms of leisure and entertainment, local politics, community activism, and race relations. Until now, the voices and contributions of these men and women who are the progeny of mid-nineteenth-century black settlers in this small, midwestern industrial city have been mostly ignored. . . .
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