Slim's Table Race, Respectability, and Masculinity

Name: Slim's Table Race, Respectability, and Masculinity
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ISBN: 9780226170312

ISBN-10: 0226170314

ISBN-13: 9780226170312

Edition: 1994 (Abridged)

Authors: Mitchell Duneier, Ovie Carter

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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…

Book details

List price: $13.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/28/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 0.57" wide x 0.85" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Mitchell Duneier teaches sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His first book, Slim's Table, won the 1994 Distinguished Publication Award of the American Sociological Association.




The Caring Community



Slim and Bart



Black Men: Transcending Roles and Images



The Moral Community



Valois as a ""Black Metropolis""



The Standard of Respectability



Membership in Society



Openness



The Need for Contact with Society



A Higher Self



You're White, He's Black, I'm a Sociologist: Who's Innocent?



The Underclass and the Middle Class



The Stereotype of Blacks in Sociology and Journalism



Conclusion


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index