Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part I. Engaging Ethnography
5. Chapter 1. Color Full Before Color Blind: The Emergence of Multiracial Neighborhood Politics in Queens, New York City 3
6. Chapter 2. The Organization of Festivals and Ceremonies Among Americans and Immigrants in Queens 23
7. Chapter 3. What Ethnographies Leave Out 42
8. Part II. Ethnography, Past and Present
9. Chapter 4. Ethnography 59
10. Chapter 5. Anthropology’s Hidden Colonialism: Assistants and Their Ethnographers 72
11. Chapter 6. The Ethnographic Present 82
12. Part III. Comparison and Contextualization
13. Chapter 7. Worth Holding Onto: The Participatory Discrepancies of Political Activism 103
14. Chapter 8. Intermarriage and the Future of Races in America 115
15. Chapter 9. Rethinking Migration, Ancient to Future 133
16. Part IV. Ethnography and Society
17. Chapter 10. Politics, Theory, and the Nature of Cultural Things 155
18. Chapter 11. Keeping Ethnography Alive in an Urbanizing World 174
19. Chapter 12. Going Public: Responsibilities and Strategies in the Aftermath of Ethnography 188
20. Notes 211
21. References 235
22. Index 283
23. Acknowledgments 289