TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Andrea L.
AU  - Eisenstein,Anna
TI  - Rebuilding shattered worlds: creating community by voicing the past 
T2  - Anthropology of contemporary North America
SN  - 9780803290587 (paperback)
AV  - F159.E15 S65 2016
U1  - 305.8009748/22 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Lincoln, London
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Easton (Northampton County)
KW  - Anthropological linguistics
KW  - Urban renewal
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
KW  - Easton (Northampton County, Pa.)
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-181) and index
N2  - "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 American, Italian American, and African American residents.  This ethnography of remembering shows how former residents engage collective memory-making through their shared place, language, and class position within the larger cityscape. Demonstrating the creative power of linguistic resources, material traces, and absent spaces, Rebuilding Shattered Worlds brings together insights from linguistic anthropology and material studies, foregrounding the role language plays in signaling "pastness.""--; "An ethnography of the ways displaced residents remember the ethnic diversity of their neighborhood in a small city in eastern Pennsylvania destroyed in the name of urban renewal, where memories, linguistic patterns, and material artifacts continue to animate people's everyday lives"--
ER  -