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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Author's Note -- Prologue: December 31, 1965: The Road to Black Power -- Part 1 -- Chapter 1: January 3: A Murder in Tuskegee -- Chapter 2: January 10: Humiliated in Atlanta -- Chapter 3: January 26: A New Front in Chicago -- Chapter 4: March 17: Two Toughs from Oakland -- Chapter 5: May 3: The Black Panthers of Lowndes County -- Chapter 6: May 13: A Coup in Kingston Springs -- Chapter 7: June 7: Showdown at the Lorraine Motel -- Chapter 8: June 16: A Cry in the Mississippi Night -- Part 2 -- Chapter 9: June 23: Tear Gas Over Canton -- Chapter 10: July and August: "Starmichael" on Tour -- Chapter 11: August 5: A Rock in Marquette Park -- Chapter 12: August 13: A Dynamite Bust in Philadelphia -- Chapter 13: September 6: Riot Comes to Summerhill -- Chapter 14: October 29: Berkeley and the Backlash Vote -- Chapter 15: October: Ten Points from the Flatlands -- Chapter 16: December 8: The Peg Leg Bates Purge -- Chapter 17: December 26: Black Studies and the First Kwanzaa -- Epilogue: After 1966: Of Allies and Messiahs -- Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photo Credits -- Copyright.

Intro -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Preface -- Cast of Characters -- The Neighborhoods of Pittsburgh -- 1. The Brown Bomber's Cornermen -- 2. The Negro Carnegies -- 3. The Calculating Crusader -- 4. The Rise and Fall of "Big Red" -- 5. Billy and Lena -- 6. The Double V Warriors -- 7. The Complex Mr. B -- 8. "Jackie's Boswell" -- 9. The Women of "Up South" -- 10. The Bard of a Broken World -- Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Index -- Copyright.

Much of the lore of black Pittsburgh is set in the mid-20th century and is around jazz, Negro League Baseball, and the Pittsburgh Courier newspaper. Numerous academic studies, theses, dissertations, documentaries, newspaper articles, and essays have focused on one aspect of the lore or another. Very few published histories of this era have brought all aspects of the experience together in a tightly woven fabric of life, history, culture, politics, art, and enjoyment than Mark Whitaker's Smoketown. The book is flled with 25 Charles "Teenie" Harris photographs that provide a visual interpretation and documentation of Whitaker's writing that paints a picture of black life in Pittsburgh. Each chapter flows into the following chapter with such ease and precision that the reader could step back and imagine viewing this history like Gulliver looking down on Lilliput.

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In this essay I argue that Tamilnet.com, an Internet news agency put together by a group of Sri Lankan Tamils to address the Tamil diaspora and influence English-speaking elites, subverted international news coverage during Sri Lanka's civil war by making "ironic" use of the discursive styles of journalism and anthropology. I also claim that this constituted a particular form of autoethnographic popular anthropology that challenged professional anthropology, and in some ways sought to replace it. In the first two sections of this essay, I dismantle the concept of "the popular" by showing that when anthropologists and social theorists use the term they are often referring to connected but distinct aspects of popularity which should be distinguished: Baudrillardian market popularity on the one hand, and Habermasian identity-resistance popularity on the other. I then show how the Internet, given its technology and software, is best seen as market popular in form but identity-resistance popular in content. In the remaining four sections I illustrate, ethnographically, how the creators of Tamilnet.com, while deeply embedded in civil war and a world-wide diaspora, recognized this aspect of the Internet and used it—again, "ironically"—to construct a site that advances their own nationalist interests.