Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Orginal Publication Date
1980
Journal Title
Explorations in Ethnic Studies
Volume
3
Issue
ees/vol3/iss1
First Page
60
Last Page
62
Abstract
Number Our Days had its genesis in a research project on ethnicity and again at the University of Southern California where author Barbara Myerhoff is chairman of the department of anthropology. Her study of a group of elderly Jews living on and around the beach in Venice, California and who were members of the Aliyah Senior Citizens' Center, was undertaken reluctantly after Professor Myerhoff encountered resistance among the elderly Chicanos she had intended to study. The study absorbed four years of her life and ended in this record of surpassing warmth and intelligence of the past and present of a people in the tag ends of whose lives the remnants of an entire culture reside.
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Copyright, ©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1980