Ebook {Epub PDF} Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations by Monica McDermott

PY - /7. Y1 - /7. N2 - This lively, informative study provides an intimate view of the lived experience of race in urban America from a unique vantage: 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 in a natural www.doorway.ru by: Monica McDermott’s Working-Class White contributes valuable insights into working-class whites’ racial identity formation in urban settings, where they have frequent encounters with African-Americans. Through participant observation, McDermott investigates what whiteness looks like from the standpoint of working-class white Americans. To accomplish this, she explores how working-class whites .  · The book explores race relations and is a sort of an undercover look at working class people's basic thoughts on stereotypes and how those views differ based on region. The researcher gets jobs at convenience stores in two working-class white neighborhoods bordering on working-class black neighborhoods, one in Atlanta and one in Boston.4/5.

This lively, informative study provides an intimate view of the lived experience of race in urban America from a unique vantage: 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 in a natural setting. Working-Class White The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations. by Monica McDermott (Author) July ; First Edition; Paperback $, £; Courses Race Class Urban Sociology Sociology of Work / Labor; Title Details. Rights: Available worldwide Pages: ISBN: Trim Size: 6 x 9 Illustrations: 6 tables. McDermott wrote Working-Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations, a book based on the year she spent observing interracial interactions while working as a convenience store.

This lively, informative study provides an intimate view of the lived experience of race in urban America from a unique vantage#58; 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. The book explores race relations and is a sort of an undercover look at working class people's basic thoughts on stereotypes and how those views differ based on region. The researcher gets jobs at convenience stores in two working-class white neighborhoods bordering on working-class black neighborhoods, one in Atlanta and one in Boston. 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 in a natural setting.