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As issues of power and social order loom large in Angelstown, Ralph Cintron shows how eruptions on the margins of the community are emblematic of a deeper disorder. In their language and images, the members of a Latino community in a midsized American city create self-respect under conditions of disrepect. Cintron's innovative ethnography offers a beautiful portrait of a struggling Mexican-American community and shows how people (including ethnographers) make sense of their lives through cultural forms.

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A special book that is just as much about inequality in the contemporary U.S. as it is about the way to research it. Cintron succeeds in doing what many well-intentioned policies do not. And he does it by looking and listening with great care, rather than assuming, condemning, or condoning. --Virginia Dominguez, author of White by Definition I am stunned, amazed, almost breathless at how good Angels' Town is. . . . Landmark, critical ethnography and rhetorical analysis. --David Jolliffe, DePaul University A remarkable piece of ethnographic work. . . . With the publication of this book, Cintron will take a well-deserved place in the company of the leading ethnographers both in Mexican-American studies and in the study of cultural poetics in general. --Jose Limon, author of Dancing with the Devil After years of debates about whether ethnographers can write about the lives of their subjects without colonizing them, Cintron, a master rhetorician, shows us that cultural anthropology is still possible-but we must come to it with a commitment to learning how to read the deep stories of resentment, longing, and loss that are embedded in the world of the everyday. . . . A stunning and important work that sets high standards for the new anthropology of Latino communities in the United States. --Ruth Behar, author of The Vulnerable Observer

A special book that is just as much about inequality in the contemporary U.S. as it is about the way to research it. Cintron succeeds in doing what many well-intentioned policies do not. And he does it by looking and listening with great care, rather than assuming, condemning, or condoning. --Virginia Dominguez, author of <i>White by Definition</i> I am stunned, amazed, almost breathless at how good <i>Angels' Town</i> is. . . . Landmark, critical ethnography and rhetorical analysis. --David Jolliffe, DePaul University A remarkable piece of ethnographic work. . . . With the publication of this book, Cintron will take a well-deserved place in the company of the leading ethnographers both in Mexican-American studies and in the study of cultural poetics in general. --Jose Limon, author of <i>Dancing with the Devil</i> After years of debates about whether ethnographers can write about the lives of their subjects without colonizing them, Cintron, a master rhetorician, shows us that cultural anthropology is still possible-but we must come to it with a commitment to learning how to read the deep stories of resentment, longing, and loss that are embedded in the world of the everyday. . . . A stunning and important work that sets high standards for the new anthropology of Latino communities in the United States. --Ruth Behar, author of <i>The Vulnerable Observer</i>

A special book that is just as much about inequality in the contemporary U.S. as it is about the way to research it. Cintron succeeds in doing what many well-intentioned policies do not. And he does it by looking and listening with great care, rather than assuming, condemning, or condoning. --Virginia Dominguez, author of White by Definition -I am stunned, amazed, almost breathless at how good Angels' Town is. . . . Landmark, critical ethnography and rhetorical analysis.- --David Jolliffe, DePaul University -A remarkable piece of ethnographic work. . . . With the publication of this book, Cintron will take a well-deserved place in the company of the leading ethnographers both in Mexican-American studies and in the study of cultural poetics in general.- --Jose Limon, author of Dancing with the Devil -After years of debates about whether ethnographers can write about the lives of their subjects without colonizing them, Cintron, a master rhetorician, shows us that cultural anthropology is still possible-but we must come to it with a commitment to learning how to read the deep stories of resentment, longing, and loss that are embedded in the world of the everyday. . . . A stunning and important work that sets high standards for the new anthropology of Latino communities in the United States.- --Ruth Behar, author of The Vulnerable Observer

A special book that is just as much about inequality in the contemporary U.S. as it is about the way to research it. Cintron succeeds in doing what many well-intentioned policies do not. And he does it by looking and listening with great care, rather than assuming, condemning, or condoning. --Virginia Dominguez, author of White by Definition <br><br> I am stunned, amazed, almost breathless at how good Angels' Town is. . . . Landmark, critical ethnography and rhetorical analysis. --David Jolliffe, DePaul University<br><br> A remarkable piece of ethnographic work. . . . With the publication of this book, Cintron will take a well-deserved place in the company of the leading ethnographers both in Mexican-American studies and in the study of cultural poetics in general. --Jose Limon, author of Dancing with the Devil <br><br> After years of debates about whether ethnographers can write about the lives of their subjects without colonizing them, Cintron, a master rhetorician, shows us that cultural anthropology is still possible-but we must come to it with a commitment to learning how to read the deep stories of resentment, longing, and loss that are embedded in the world of the everyday. . . . A stunning and important work that sets high standards for the new anthropology of Latino communities in the United States. --Ruth Behar, author of The Vulnerable Observer

A special book that is just as much about inequality in the contemporary U.S. as it is about the way to research it. Cintron succeeds in doing what many well-intentioned policies do not. And he does it by looking and listening with great care, rather than assuming, condemning, or condoning. --Virginia Dominguez, author of White by Definition <br> I am stunned, amazed, almost breathless at how good Angels' Town is. . . . Landmark, critical ethnography and rhetorical analysis. --David Jolliffe, DePaul University <br> A remarkable piece of ethnographic work. . . . With the publication of this book, Cintron will take a well-deserved place in the company of the leading ethnographers both in Mexican-American studies and in the study of cultural poetics in general. --Jos&#233; Lim&#243;n, author of Dancing with the Devil <br> After years of debates about whether ethnographers can write about the lives of their subjects without colonizing them, Cintron, a master rhetorician, shows us t

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Ralph Cintron is associate professor of rhetoric at the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

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