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The tribes of America : journalistic discoveries of our people and their cultures / Paul Cowan ; introduction by Rick Perlstein.
LIBRA E184.A1 C66 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cowan, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Social conditions.
- African Americans--Social conditions--1975-.
- Jews--United States--Social conditions.
- Jews.
- Social conditions.
- United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The vigilantes of Highway 80
- Still the promised land
- The lower depths of American labor
- Interlude: Into the cauldron
- A fight over America's future
- Jesse Jackson : a return to the fundamentals
- Housing in Forest Hills : but not next door
- Busing in Boston : the fire this time
- Interlude: Through their eyes
- The Mississippi Delta : let us now praise a famous man
- Harlan County : the power and the shame
- Interlude: Coming home
- Jews without money, revisited, 1972
- Orthodox in New York : a journey through the year 5738
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania : ballad for Americans [the trial of the Harrisburg Seven]
- Afterword
- Appendix: From my workshop.
- Notes:
- Articles first published in The Village voice.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781595582300
- 1595582304
- OCLC:
- 154707504
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