| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.1

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Book Review

Black Bangor: African Americans in a Maine Community, 1880–1950. By Maureen Elgersman Lee. (Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2005. xxii, 177 pp. Cloth, $60.00, ISBN 1-58465-498-8. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 1-58465-499-6.)
How does one illuminate the experience of a small group of urban blacks in a "white" state—a state that had a robust Ku Klux Klan presence? This book, though well illustrated, leaves the reader with too many unresolved questions.	1
The book is part of the series entitled, Revisiting New England: The New Regionalism, and Maureen Elgersman Lee's approach is to focus on the internal mechanisms within the black families in Bangor as she explains how their community took shape. She chooses to avoid descriptions of social pathologies and "ghettoization"—the dominant schema of the old school of urban analysis.	. . .

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