Black and White Styles in Conflict
by Thomas Kochman
University of Chicago Press, 1981
Cloth: 978-0-226-44954-8 | Paper: 978-0-226-44955-5 | Electronic: 978-0-226-11225-1
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226112251.001.0001
ABOUT THIS BOOKTABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

"Goes a long way toward showing a lay audience the value, integrity, and aesthetic sensibility of black culture, and moreover the conflicts which arise when its values are treated as deviant version of majority ones."—Marjorie Harness Goodwin, American Ethnologist

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Black Culture

2. Classroom Modalitites

3. Fighting Words

4. Boasting and Bragging

5. Male and Female Interaction: The First Phase

6. Truth and Consequences

7. Information and Property

8. The Force Field

9. Style

10. Epilogue

Appendix: Testing for Cultural Homogeneity

References

Index