Muncie, India(na)Muncie, Indiana, remains the epitome of an American town. Yet scholars built the image of so called typical communities across the United States on an illusion. Their decades of studies ignored the racial, ethnic, and religious diversity and tensions woven into the American communities that Muncie supposedly embodied. Himanee Gupta Carlson puts forth an essential question: what do nonwhites, non Christians, and or non natives mean when they call