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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity

Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity

Duneier, Mitchell

Paperback

Series: American Studies Collection

Black American StudiesGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesMen's Studies

ISBN10: 0226170314
ISBN13: 9780226170312
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: May 28 1994
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
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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