Talking at Trena's : : Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern / / Reuben A. Buford May.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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