Race Talk in a Mexican Cantina

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-61186-399-4
Verlag: Michigan State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Latinos in the United States

People avoid speaking about race in the presence of another racial group for fear of saying something wrong and creating friction. This was not the situation at JB’s, a small Mexican cantina located in one of Houston’s oldest Mexican barrios. Mexicans made up most of the regular patrons, but a small number of whites also visited the bar on a regular basis. This situation created the circumstances for race talk in which the Mexican patrons attacked and criticized the white patrons because of their whiteness. The white patrons likewise criticized the Mexican patrons, but their remarks were not as strident in comparison to those they received. When Tatcho Mindiola visited the bar and heard the race talk, he realized that it was a unique situation. He thus became a regular patron, and over a three-year period kept notes on the racial exchanges he observed and heard, which form the basis of this insightful volume.

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• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde

Über Autor(innen)

TATCHO MINDIOLA is professor emeritus of sociology and the former director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston. He is coauthor of Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes.