Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men

Liebow based this book on 18 months of fieldwork that he performed in 1962-63 when he lived among a group of seemingly socially and culturally unanchored men in a poor, even destitute inner-city neighborhood in Washington D.C. The major effect of the book when it was published in the 1960s was to open the eyes of mainstream (i.e. white) America to the conditions of life for so many black men in post-war American society.

The most striking thing about reading this work is how relevant it remains, for LiebowÆs descriptions of men who find themselves with no easy (or even difficult) way to link themselves to the mainstream goals of society and the personal consequences of such forced cultural disassociation are chillingly similar to the fate of so many young African-American men -û and their would-be families û- today.

The greatest flaw in the book (for the current reader) is not one that can be blamed on Liebow but simply results from the passage of nearly 40 years since he was making his observations in the field. Liebow was writing about the United States at the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement, a time when it is hardly to be expected that racism would

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)