Anyone know the title of this specific cultural studies book?

Question

The book was written by a female cultural studies professor and has a picture of a pretty blonde girl - about 20-28 - working as a convenience store clerk on the cover. The supplementary title is along the lines of "my year as a convenience store clerk," but I have no clue what the full title is so I can't find it. It discusses the comparative racial perceptions in Boston and Atlanta as seen from the perspective of a white convenience store clerk. I have tried to search for it on Amazon, Borders.com, and BarnesandNoble.com using every possible combination I can think of without ANY success. I saw it at a local Borders, read a few pages, wanted to buy it but left my credit card at home, put it on hold, went back for it the next day, and found it had been sold to another customer. This book seems to have vanished into thin air. NOBODY has ever heard of this book and it was publised after 2002.I am desperate to read it so if you know the name of the book or the author, PLEASE HELP!!!

Answer 1

It's called "Working Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations" by Monica McDermott. Amazon has it for sale at $19.95. Here's a link with more info (including a photo of the cover of the book, with a store clerk depicted on it): http://www.amazon.com/Working-Class-White-Making-Unmaking-Relations/dp/0520248090

Happy reading to you! :-)

Answer 2

Wow. Flyingho gives a great answer. I'm trying to compile population statistics to show that the accusation that some 10 million women were burnt at the stake is way off. Moreover the Inquisitors, both the Catholic and Protestant ones, kept meticulous records of the trials, and these are publicly available. The historians Will and Ariel Durant wrote a 12 vol. History of Civilization. In the volume "Reformation", Will, who has no political ax to grind on the subject, estimates there were in the neighborhood of 300,000 deaths. Probably at least 10% of these were men, and in Iceland 90% of the victims were men. The Spanish Inquisition would not try witches and focused instead on relapsed Moors and Jews. The idea that the high and mighty used the Inquisition as a tool to get others property is wrong, and land or money the Church acquired stayed with the Church. And it is certainly very true that peasants in the Middle Ages were quick to blame anyone for the failure of a crop or a sick child or animal. Many a Gerta's cow got mastitis and produced bad milk. Gerta got it into her mind that her neighbor Bertha had put a curse on her cow, and so off Gerta goes to lodge an accusation of witchcraft against Bertha. Peasant solidarity did not exist. I would definitely avoid sources like Andrea Dworkin. These women have invented a mythology of persecution. That is to say, there never was an organized persecution against women such as there was against Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and other heretics. Men have dominated women for a long time, but domination is a long way from persecution. Male resistance to female penetration of their profession is based on envy and the fear that there will therefore be fewer male (doctors, say). This is chauvinism and obstructionism, but again these are a far cry from persecution.

Answer 3

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