Luke Eric Lassiter is Professor of Humanities and Anthropology and director of the graduate humanities program at Marshall University Graduate College in South Charleston, WV. Hurley Goodall is a former Indiana state legislator and recipient of the Distinguished Hoosier Award from Indiana Governor Frank O'Bannon. Elizabeth Campbell is an independent folklorist who specializes in community-based arts and history. Michelle Natasya Johnson is in the anthropology department at Ball State University.

Prompted by the overt omission of Muncie's black community from the famous study by Lynd and Lynd, Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture, the authors uncover the neglected part of the story of Middletown, a well-known pseudonym for the Midwestern city of Muncie, India...

Foreword
Introduction: The Story of a Collaborative Project
PART I. Middletown and Muncie's African American Community
Chapter 1. The Enduring Legacy of Muncie as Middletown
Chapter 2. A City Apart
PART II. Collaborative Understandings
Chapter 3. Getting a Living
Chapter 4. Making a Home
Chapter 5. Training the Young
Chapter 6. Using Leisure
Chapter 7. Engaging in Religious Practices
Chapter 8. Engaging in Community Activities
Conclusion: Lessons Learned about Muncie, Race, and Ethnography
Epilogue
Afterword
Appendix A. Notes on the Collaborative Process
Appendix B. House Concurrent Resolution 33
About the Authors and Community Advisors