TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCurn,Alexis S.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Grind : : Black Women and Survival in the Inner City / 
SN  - 9780813585086
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New Brunswick, New Jersey
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Urban women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - fast
KW  - Urban poor
KW  - Sociology, Urban
KW  - Inner cities
KW  - African American women
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Sociologie urbaine
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Femmes en milieu urbain
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Pauvres en milieu urbain
KW  - Noirs americains pauvres
KW  - Noires americaines
KW  - United States
KW  - Poor African Americans
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. "Grinding": Living and Working in East Oakland -- 2. "It Happens All the Time": Day-to-Day Experiences with Microinteractional Assaults -- 3. "I Am Not a Prostitute": How Young Black Women Challenge Sexual Harassment on the Street -- 4. "Keeping It Fresh": Self-Representation and Challenging Controlling Images in the Inner City -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Field Research Methods in Urban Public Space -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author; Open Access
N2  - Few scholars have explored the collective experiences of women living in the inner city and the innovative strategies they develop to navigate daily life in this setting. The Grind illustrates the lived experiences of poor African American women and the creative strategies they develop to manage these events and survive in a community commonly exposed to violence. Alexis S. McCurn draws on nearly two years of naturalistic field research among adolescents and adults in Oakland, California to provide an ethnographic account of how black women accomplish the routine tasks necessary for basic survival in poor inner-city neighborhoods and how the intersections of race, gender, and class shape how black women interact with others in public. This book makes the case that the daily consequences of racialized poverty in the lives of African Americans cannot be fully understood without accounting for the personal and collective experiences of poor black women
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/61266/
ER  -