Description
| Summary: | 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.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 188 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780813585086
0813585082
9780813585079
0813585074 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2018). |
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