{"product_id":"slims-table-mitchell-duneier-9780226170312","title":"Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlim's Table\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSlim's Table\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun Times\u003c\/i\u003e Chicago Book of the Year Award \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An instant classic of ethnography that will provoke debate and provide insight for years to come.\"--Michael Eric Dyson, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mitchell Duneier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226170314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226170312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.60d","brand":"Mitchell Duneier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992895291647,"sku":"9780226170312","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2399702f-ec5c-4c1e-832a-cacf135471c4.jpg?v=1683321402","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slims-table-mitchell-duneier-9780226170312","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}