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Slim's Table: Race, Respectability, and Masculinity (American Studies Collection) (1st Edition) by Mitchell Duneier Paperback, 200 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-10: 0-226-17031-4 / 0226170314 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17031-2 / 9780226170312 At the Valois "See Your Food" cafeteria on Chicago's South Side, black and white men gather over cups of coffee and steam-table food. Mitchell Duneier, a sociologist, spent four years at the Valois writing this moving profile of the black men who congregate at "Slim's Table." Praised as "a marvelous |