TY  - BOOK
AU  - Voyer,Andrea M.
TI  - Strangers and neighbors: multiculturalism, conflict, and community in America 
SN  - 9781139626835 (ebook)
AV  - F30.S67 V69 2013
U1  - 974.1/82 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Somalis
KW  - Maine
KW  - Lewiston
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Multiculturalism
KW  - Community development
KW  - Lewiston (Me.)
KW  - Race relations
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - In Strangers and Neighbors, Andrea M. Voyer shares five years of observations in the city of Lewiston. She shows how long-time city residents and immigrant newcomers worked to develop an understanding of the inclusive and caring community in which they could all take part. Yet the sense of community developed in Lewiston was built on the appreciation of diversity in the abstract rather than by fostering close and caring relationships across the boundaries of class, race, culture, and religion. Through her sensitive depictions of the experiences of Somalis, Lewiston city leadership, anti-racism activists, and even racists, Voyer reveals both the promise of and the obstacles to achieving community in the face of diversity
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139626835
ER  -