Talking at Trena's: Everyday Conversations at an African American Tavern

"An intimate look at racial identity and racial conflict." —Mitchell Duneier, Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author

Talking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle-class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. Sociology professor Reuben A. BufordMay'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. May recognizes tavern talk as a for...