Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past

by Andrea L. Smith, Anna Eisenstein, Andrea L. Smith

Rebuilding Shattered Worlds explores the ways a demolished neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania, still resonates in the imaginations of displaced residents. Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, the authors highlight the intersecting languages of blight, race, and place as elderly interlocutors attempt to make sense of the world they lost when urban renewal initiatives razed "Syrian Town"--a densely packed neighborhood of Lebanese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803290586
• ISBN13: 9780803290587
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"