Beschreibung:

192 Seiten; Illustr.; 22 cm. Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Gutes Ex.; Umschlag berieben. - Englisch. - ... "A quietly devastating attack on misguided social analysts and black and white journalists in search of sensational sound bites on the ghetto, who replace traditional racist stereotypes of the black man with patronizing caricatures of a demoralized and utterly marginalized race of men hopelessly wrecked by white racism. Rejecting this homogenized travesty, Duneier gives voice, dignity and meaning to the lives of the forgotten majority of working class black men who pay their bills, fear their god, respect their women, and cherish their friendships." ? Orlando Patterson, Harvard University ... (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Part One The Caring Community ----- Slim and Bart ----- Black Men: Transcending Roles and Images ----- Part Two The Moral Community ----- Valois as a "Black Metropolis" The Standard of Respectability ----- Part Three Membership in Society ----- Openness ----- The Need for Contact with Society ----- A Higher Self ----- Part Four 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 ----- Notes ----- Index. ISBN 0226170306