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Working-class white : the making and unmaking of race relations / Monica McDermott.
LIBRA E184.A1 M136 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDermott, Monica, 1971-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Working class.
- White people--Race identity.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Prejudices.
- United States--Race relations--Case studies.
- United States.
- Race relations.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Georgia--Atlanta.
- Prejudices--United States--Case studies.
- Sociology, Urban--United States--Case studies.
- Participant observation.
- White people--Race identity--Georgia--Atlanta.
- White people--Race identity--Massachusetts--Boston.
- Working class--Georgia--Atlanta--Attitudes.
- Working class--Massachusetts--Boston--Attitudes.
- Atlanta (Ga.)--Race relations.
- Boston (Mass.)--Race relations.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 196 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- This lively study provides an intimate view of the lived experience of race in urban America from a unique vantage point: the corner store. Sociologist Monica McDermott spent a year working as a convenience store clerk in white working-class neighborhoods in Atlanta and Boston in order to observe race relations between blacks and whites. Her findings illuminate the subtle cues and genuine misunderstandings that characterize race relations in many urban communities; they reveal how racial interactions and racial identity are influenced by local context, and they provide evidence of what many people would prefer to believe does not exist: continued antiblack prejudice among white Americans. McDermott's keen insights make this book essential reading for anyone interested in life in contemporary urban America.
- Contents:
- The cities and the sites : "The Crescent" in Atlanta and "Greenfield" in Boston
- Experiences of white racial identity
- Situational contexts and perceptions of prejudice
- The implications of diversity among Blacks for white attitudes
- Race, crime, and violence
- Race, gender, and sexuality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0520248082
- 0520248090
- OCLC:
- 61361541
- Publisher Number:
- 9780520248083
- 9780520248090
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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