"I Wasn't Scared of Them, They Were Scared of Me": Constructions of Self/Other in a Midwestern Hair Salon |
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Authors: | Yolanda J. Majors |
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Affiliation: | The University of Illinois, Chicago |
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Abstract: | This article describes how a group of black women read culture, class, and other social relations, analyzing the process and skill of reading linguistic and paralinguistic cues in allowing individuals to navigate across multiple discourses. I draw from one ethnographic study of talk in a Midwestern hair salon. Such research seeks to strengthen ties between the disciplines of anthropology and education, and relatedly between those who work within universities, classrooms, and everyday settings. |
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Keywords: | shoptalk border-crossers social reading African American women |
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