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Tally's Corner: A Study of Negro Streetcorner Men
Why do poor men on a city streetcorner talk about marriage, work and women one way and live another?
At a glance
- Author
- Elliot Liebow
Why read it
- You will understand why men who expect marriage to fail say they were pushed into it, and what that claim protects
- You will stop taking streetcorner boasts about using women at face value, since in their real relationships the men often showed genuine liking
- You will see why skilled work can feel worthless to a man when nobody around him values it or even talks about it
Who it is for
- A social worker trying to understand families in poor city neighborhoods
- A student of ethnography learning to listen before judging
- A policy reader wary of easy explanations for urban poverty
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