Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity - Couverture souple

Duneier, Mitchell

 
9780226170312: Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226170314 ISBN 13 : 9780226170312
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1994

Synopsis

At the Valois "See Your Food" cafeteria on Chicago's South Side, black and white men gather over cups of coffee and steam-table food. Mitchell Duneier, a sociologist, spent four years at the Valois writing this moving profile of the black men who congregate at "Slim's Table." Praised as "a marvelous study of those who should not be forgotten" by the Wall Street Journal,Slim's Table helps demolish the narrow sociological picture of black men and simple media-reinforced stereotypes. In between is a "respectable" citizenry, too often ignored and little understood.

"Slim's Table is an astonishment. Duneier manages to fling open windows of perception into what it means to be working-class black, how a caring community can proceed from the most ordinary transactions, all the while smashing media-induced stereotypes of the races and race relations."—Citation for Chicago Sun Times Chicago Book of the Year Award

"An instant classic of ethnography that will provoke debate and provide insight for years to come."—Michael Eric Dyson, Chicago Tribune

"Mr. Duneier sees the subjects of his study as people and he sees the scale of their lives as fully human, rather than as diminished versions of grander lives lived elsewhere by people of another color. . . . A welcome antidote to trends in both journalism and sociology."—Roger Wilkins, New York Times Book Review

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À propos de l'auteur

Mitchell Duneier is professor of sociology at Princeton University and visiting distinguished professor of sociology at the City University of New York. Ovie Carter, who took the photographs used in this book, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 for The Faces of Hunger.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226170314
ISBN 13 
9780226170312
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780226170305: Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226170306 ISBN 13 :  9780226170305
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1992
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