Lexington Books
Pages: 382
Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-8345-8 • Hardback • June 2015 • $140.00 • (£108.00)
978-1-7936-0542-9 • Paperback • October 2021 • $48.99 • (£38.00)
978-0-7391-8346-5 • eBook • June 2015 • $46.50 • (£36.00)
Hannah Jopling teaches anthropology at Fordham University and Hunter College.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Publisher’s Note
Part I “There was so much due us.”
Chapter 1 Encounter, A Baseball Game, 1902
Chapter 2 Bird’s-Eye View 1902-1905
Chapter 3Struggles, 1902-1905
Chapter 4 Own Worlds, 1902-1952
Part II “They took advantage of small opportunities and enlarged them.”
Chapter 5Encounter, A Hanging, 1919
Chapter 6A Bird’s-Eye View, 1905-1919
Chapter 7Struggles, 1905-1919
Chapter 8Own Worlds, 1905-1919
Part III “We made room.”
Chapter 9Encounter, A Lawsuit, 1938-1940
Chapter 10Bird’s-Eye View, 1919-1940
Chapter 11Struggles, 1919-1940
Chapter 12Own Worlds, 1919-1940
Part IV “We wanted what we saw whites had.”
Chapter 13Encounter, A Parade, 1949
Chapter 14Bird’s-eye View, 1940-1949
Chapter 15Struggles, 1940-1949
Chapter 16Own Worlds, 1940-1949
Part V “This was the development stage.”
Chapter 17Encounter, A Demolition, 1952
Chapter 18Bird’s-Eye View, 1949-1952
Chapter 19Struggles, 1949-1952
Chapter 20Own Worlds, 1949-1952
Chapter 21Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
‘We made room for ourselves’ (p. xii). This one sentence captures the essence of Hannah Jopling’s Life in a Black Community, a historical ethnography that examines how black residents interacted with the white community in the borderstate town of Annapolis, Maryland, from 1902 to 1952, negotiating and demanding their rights as citizens through various individual and collective efforts…. [T]he book overall is a valuable contribution to research focused on the relationship between citizenship and race…. What is striking about Life in a Black Community is the various ways it can be used in classes and for research on education, race, racism, citizenship, class, community organizing, Jim Crow, and resistance. Many of the examples of ‘striving for equal citizenship’ that Jopling uses to support her argument can still be seen today, making this historical ethnography soberingly timely and a sad reminder about the ways history reproduces itself when lessons are not learned and enacted.
— American Anthropologist
Here, in Life in a Black Community, is the invisible third of Annapolis. Here is the African America that made the city. It is never seen by historians or preservationists because it is not in official records or great buildings, but is in the ordinary: newspapers and in the ground as archaeology. This is the third that has been regarded as disposable along with the ground where it is buried and in the newspapers printed to be discarded.
— Mark P. Leone, University of Maryland, College Park