Judith Goode

The contingent construction of local identities: Koreans and Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia

This analysis examines the ways in which the two major new immigrant groups in Philadelphia, Koreans and Puerto Ricans, are learning to construct identities for themselves in a city that is paradigmatically black and white in demography, space, and politics. Philadelphia, a US deindustrializing city with a growing suburban hinterland, is experiencing a different restructuring process than global cities like New York and Los Angeles or newer sunbelt regional cities. Local spaces within the city itself vary in the process of constructing ethnic boundaries, relations, and identities depending on their class histories. The analysis demonstrates that as Korean and Puerto Rican populations confront different urban institutions and local spaces, they encounter contradictions among societal narratives about race and ethnicity and between these narratives and their own lived experience. These contradictions create openings for the formation of alternative collective identities and action. Conclusions indicate that...

Food and behavior: Finding common ground among the disciplines

Barker, Lewis M., ed. The Psychobiology of Human Food Selection. Westport, Connecticut: AVI Publishers, 1982. xv + 268 pp. including chapter references and index

Progress and parochialism in urban anthropology

27.50 cloth. Galler, Janina R., ed. Nutrition and Behavior. New York: Plenum, 1984. xviii + 514 pp. including chapter references, glossary, and index.

Faith-Based Organizations In Philadelphia: Neoliberal Ideology And The Decline Of Political Activism

49.50 cloth.

Job-saving strategies : worker buyouts and QWL

Peter C. W. Gutkind. Urban Anthropology: Perspectives on ‘Third World’ Urbanization and Urbanism. New.York: Barnes and Noble Books (with K. Van Gorcum, The Netherlands), 1974. 262 pp. Tables, references, and indices.

A Wary Welcome To The Neighborhood: Community Responses To Immigrants

22.50. Wayne A. Cornelius and Felicity M. Trueblood, eds. Latin American Urban Research, Vol. 4: Anthropological Perspectives on Latin American Urbanization. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1974. 320 pp. Tables, figures, and bibliographies.

Dousing the Fire or Fanning the Flames: The Role of Human Relations Practitioners in Intergroup Conflicts

17.50.