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First published in 1939, After Freedom is the first complete ethnography of an African American community in the United States.

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After Freedom is not only a classic of African American history. It is also a model case study in how to do ethnographic field work, how to listen deeply to one's informants, how to write with rich detail and a keen analytical eye. --Paul R. Spickard, Brigham Young University<br>

After Freedom is not only a classic of African American history. It is also a model case study in how to do ethnographic field work, how to listen deeply to one's informants, how to write with rich detail and a keen analytical eye. --Paul R. Spickard, Brigham Young University

A typical Mississippi town, a county seat, is taken for this careful study of the human problem of race in this delta district. Every facet of the subject is discussed, and the facts are based not only on a familiarity with the section and the problem, but on questionnaires, research and analysis. From the angle of race, as complete a picture of the community is presented as in Middletown, though from a different approach. Social, economic, educational, religious, human as well as racial - all in all a challenge to Americans everywhere. Specialized in appeal. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Hortense Powdermaker (1900-1970) in 1938 joined the newly established Queens College in New York City and founded its department of anthropology and sociology. Holding many distinguished positions in the field, she served as president of the American Ethnological Society from 1946-1947. In 1968 she retired from Queens College as professor emeritus and moved to California. She became a research associate of the Department of Anthropology at Berkeley and began a study of youth culture on the Berkeley campus. Her many books include Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers and Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist. Brackette F. Williams is professor of anthropology and director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Arizona and an editorial associate for American Ethnologist. Drexel Glenn Woodson is assistant research anthropologist, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona.

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