Race Talk and Local Collective Memory among African American Men in a Neighborhood Tavern |
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Authors: | May Reuben A. Buford |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Sociology, University of Georgia, Baldwin Hall 117, Athens, GA, 30606 |
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Abstract: | This article examines how African American men, through face-to-face conversation, create individual and collective memories around issues of race. I use ethnographic data collected in an African American neighborhood tavern in Chicago to argue that tavern patrons' race talk: 1) generates a collective memory of negative interracial interaction that gives reported racial encounters a compounding effect; and 2) empowers patrons through catharsis and gives them an opportunity to re-create themselves with a positive racial self-identity. Consequences of this microlevel collective memory for interracial interaction are discussed. |
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Keywords: | collective memory racial discourse African American men racial identity |
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