Ethnography of a Black Community

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"Carol Stack's groundbreaking, radical ethnography of a black community in the middle decades of the 20th century is in some essential ways neither radical nor groundbreaking.
All Our Kin: Strategies for Survival in a Black Community, published in 1974 and based on fieldwork begun in the 1960s, in many ways follows the traditional requirements of any ethnography, at least as the form was practiced since its beginnings as a formal subgenre (distinct from travelogues and other related forms of writing) in the late 19th century and extending through the 1980s when a number of anthropologists such as George Marcus began to question the fundamental assumptions underlying the field of anthropology itself and the fundamentally linked practice of ethnography.
Stack's book, like so many ethnographies before hers, seeks to .."

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