| #500166 in Books | 1994-05-28 | 1994-05-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.60 x5.50l,.52 | File type: PDF | 200 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Great Book!|By wetzelberger|Duneier has a winner in Slims Table. This is an awesome book depicting the Chicago area and the lives of a group of men. This is a true story that is easy to read and it creates a feeling of not wanting to put the book down. I have recommended this book to family members to read and they have enjoyed it as well!|1 of 1 people found the following rev|From Publishers Weekly|While a graduate student during the 1980s Duneier, who is white, hung out for four years with the black and white regulars at Valois Cafeteria, a restaurant on the fringes of the black ghetto on Chicago's South Side. Through his eyes we me
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 ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity (American Studies Collection) | Mitchell Duneier. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
