Black and White Styles in Conflict
184 pages
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© 1981
"Goes a long way toward showing a lay audience the value, integrity, and aesthetic sensibility of black culture, and moreover the conflicts which arise when its values are treated as deviant version of majority ones."—Marjorie Harness Goodwin, American Ethnologist
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Black Culture
2. Classroom Modalities
3. Fighting Words
4. Boasting and Bragging
5. Male and Female Interaction: The First Phase
6. Truth and Consequences
7. Information as Property
8. The Force Field
9. Style
10. Epilogue
Appendix: Testing for Cultural Homogeneity
References
Index
Introduction
1. Black Culture
2. Classroom Modalities
3. Fighting Words
4. Boasting and Bragging
5. Male and Female Interaction: The First Phase
6. Truth and Consequences
7. Information as Property
8. The Force Field
9. Style
10. Epilogue
Appendix: Testing for Cultural Homogeneity
References
Index
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