An Ethnographic Field Project
The project began when a professor contacted New City Writing, an interdisciplinary institute, housed in our University Writing Program and English Department that Eli Goldblatt and I had founded several years prior.
The professor Jewelry On Sale had initiated an ethnographic field project and encountered Glassville, a 15-block neighborhood that, for fifty years, had maintained an integrated neighborhood with no apparent racial strife or hate crimes. This was notable because an adjacent
