ISBN:
0814756727
,
0814756719
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 210 p)
,
22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Talking at Trena's : Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern
DDC:
305.896073
Keywords:
African Americans Race identity
;
Bars (Drinking establishments)
;
Middle class Social life and customs
;
Social interaction Case studies
;
African Americans Attitudes
;
African Americans Social life and customs
;
Middle class Attitudes
;
Racism Case studies Psychological aspects
;
Social conditions
;
Electronic books
;
Chicago (Ill.) Race relations
;
United States Case studies Race relations
Abstract:
Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May's work focuses on how the mostly black, working- and middle-class patrons of Trena's talk about race, work, class, women, relationships, the media, and life in general. May recognizes tavern talk as a form of social play and symbolic performace within the tavern, as well as an indication of the social problems African Americans confront on a daily basis. Following a long tradition of research on informal gathering places, May's work reveals, though close de
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover Page; Title page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One Trena's: A Study in Tavern Culture; Chapter Two Work and the Tavern; Chapter Three Television Interaction and Race; Chapter Four Talking about Race; Chapter Five Marriage, Women, and the Tavern; Chapter Six Sex Talk and Innuendo; Chapter Seven The Paradox; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-203) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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