This chapter illustrates ways the author used oral history and photography research methods to study two working-class populations in Atlanta, Georgia: day laborers and affordable housing activists. Grounded in an advocacy framework, both projects cross race and social class identity categories and academic disciplinary boundaries while collapsing university and community borders. The scholar-activist routes presented evince local examples of working-class theory and praxis in a southern US metropolis at the turn of the twenty-first century.
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