TY - BOOK ID - 46204412 TI - The Grind : Black Women and Survival in the Inner City PY - 2018 SN - 0813585074 9780813585086 0813585082 9780813585079 9780813585062 0813585066 9780813585055 0813585058 PB - New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, DB - UniCat KW - African American women KW - Poor African Americans KW - Urban poor KW - Urban women KW - Inner cities KW - Sociology, Urban KW - City dwellers KW - Women KW - Poor KW - African American poor KW - African Americans KW - Social conditions KW - E-books KW - Social conditions. KW - African American Women KW - Urban Poor KW - Urban Women KW - Inner Cities KW - Social Science KW - AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN KW - URBAN POOR KW - URBAN WOMEN KW - INNER CITIES KW - SOCIOLOGY, URBAN KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - African american women KW - Sociology, urban KW - Social science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46204412 AB - Few scholars have explored the collective experiences of women living in the inner city and the innovative strategies they develop to navigate daily life in this setting. The Grind illustrates the lived experiences of poor African American women and the creative strategies they develop to manage these events and survive in a community commonly exposed to violence. Alexis S. McCurn draws on nearly two years of naturalistic field research among adolescents and adults in Oakland, California to provide an ethnographic account of how black women accomplish the routine tasks necessary for basic survival in poor inner-city neighborhoods and how the intersections of race, gender, and class shape how black women interact with others in public. This book makes the case that the daily consequences of racialized poverty in the lives of African Americans cannot be fully understood without accounting for the personal and collective experiences of poor black women. ER -