Reuben A Buford May: 3 books
Living through the Hoop
High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
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When high school basketball player LeBron James was selected as the top pick in the National Basketball Association draft of 2003, the hopes of a half-million high school basketball players soared. If LeBron could go straight from high school to the NBA, why couldn’t...
Urban Nightlife
Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Sociologists have long been curious about the ways in which city dwellers negotiate urban public space. How do they manage myriad interactions in the shared spaces of the city? In Urban Nightlife, sociologist Reuben May undertakes a nuanced examination of urban nightlife, drawing on ethnographic...
Talking at Trena's
Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May's work focuses on how the mostly black, working- and middle-class patrons of Trena's talk about race, work, class, women, relationships, the media, and life in general....