Talking at Trena's Elizabeth Field life-giving connections to spirituality

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Talking at Trena's Elizabeth Field life-giving connections to spiritualityTalking at Trena's is an ethnography conducted in a bar in an African American, middle class neighborhood on Chicago's southside. May'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 form of social play and symbolic performace within the tavern, as well as an indication of the social problems African