Ebook {Epub PDF} Slims Table: Race Respectability and Masculinity by Mitchell Duneier

slims-table-race-respectability-and-masculinity 1/4 Downloaded from www.doorway.ru on Novem by guest [MOBI] Slims Table Race Respectability And Masculinity This is likewise one of the factors by obtaining the soft documents of this slims table race respectability and masculinity by online. 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 Cited by: 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 /5(34).

Duneier explodes stereotypes and shows these ghetto men as ``respectable'' while not conforming to middle-class black (or white) stereotypes. Slim, a car mechanic is more or less the respected bachelor master of the table where the diners meet once or twice a day for anywhere from 45 to 90 minutes a meal. Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity, Paperback by Duneier, Mitchell, ISBN , ISBN , Brand New, Free shipping in the US Describes the working-class Black men who frequent a Chicago cafeteria and what they reveal about being both African American and a man. Mitchell Duneier. Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. $ (cloth), ISBN Reviewed by Raymond Albert (Associate Professor and Director, Law and Social Policy Program, Bryn Mawr College) Published on H-Ethnic (March, ).

Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity. 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.". 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. "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.