The Politics of Difference
Subtitle: Ethnic Premises in a World of Power
Contributors: Edwin N. Wilmsen (Editor); Patrick McAllister (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: August 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780226900179
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Ethnography; Nationalism; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Sociology; Ethnic relations; Ethnicity; National characteristics; Political aspects; Politics/International Relations
First sentence: Agee's wrenching documentation of relentless cycles of abject rural poverty suffered by landless sharecroppers in the American South of 1936 was commissioned by a major New York magazine - ironically named Fortune - in association with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, for whom Walker Evans, the book's photographic co-author, worked during the Great Depression.