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Urban Nightlife
Reuben A. Buford May
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Description for Urban Nightlife
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSG; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
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 data gathered in a Deep South college town to explore the question of how nighttime revelers negotiate urban public spaces as they go about meeting, socializing, and entertaining themselves.
May’s work reveals how diverse partiers define these spaces, in particular the ongoing social conflict on the streets, in bars and nightclubs, and in the various ... Read more
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 data gathered in a Deep South college town to explore the question of how nighttime revelers negotiate urban public spaces as they go about meeting, socializing, and entertaining themselves.
May’s work reveals how diverse partiers define these spaces, in particular the ongoing social conflict on the streets, in bars and nightclubs, and in the various ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813569383
SKU
V9780813569383
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About Reuben A. Buford May
REUBEN A. BUFORD MAY is a professor of sociology at Texas A & M University and a fellow at Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. He is the author of Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race and the American Dream.
Reviews for Urban Nightlife
"Not only is May’s scholarship sound, his narrative style shines and his take on urban nightlife is fresh. Anyone interested in how segregation lives even in ostensibly integrated places should read this book."
Frederick F. Wherry
Yale University
"Reuben A. Buford May's Urban Nightlife tells a nuanced story about racial interaction in public space that is rarely conveyed. Using the ... Read more
Frederick F. Wherry
Yale University
"Reuben A. Buford May's Urban Nightlife tells a nuanced story about racial interaction in public space that is rarely conveyed. Using the ... Read more