Winner of the 1998 Anthony Leeds Prize, Society for Urban Anthropology "Gregory employs the discipline of anthropology to penetrate the many myths and cliches that obscure the dynamics of black life in an urban community. Corona is the perfect subject for his investigation... Black Corona is ideal for the community organizer, neighborhood historian, or academic... [A] well-researched and beautifully written ... Read morestudy."
Bill Batson, New York Amsterdam News "Gregory gives an up-close look at community organization in a black middle-class community that defies stereotypes by outsiders about urban pathology and the disorganization and chaos that are supposed to exist in black neighborhoods."
Booklist "[Gregory] investigates class within race, race within place, and place within politics... [He] makes important points about the structuring of black identities in reaction to racial, class, and gender hierarchies."
Mary Pattillo-McCoy, American Journal of Sociology "Gregory's analysis of race, ethnic, and class contacts and cooperation is clear and well written... [A] welcome addition to the sparse ethnographic literature on middle-class African America."
Choice "While asserting that race and economics are important elements in the mix that creates and perpetuates poor communities, [Gregory] believes poverty at root is a political problem regardless of race. A well-documented analysis that counters prevailing views."
Library Journal An excellent case study and microanalysis of a single community. It is a well written and documented confutation of black stereotypes and their communities... A classic piece of urban anthropology."
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