Body, honor, and domination in marginalized urban spaces. An ethnography of bodybuilding in an American Black ghetto and Thai boxing in a French working-class banlieue
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Title
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Body, honor, and domination in marginalized urban spaces. An ethnography of bodybuilding in an American Black ghetto and Thai boxing in a French working-class banlieue
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:9b17ae6decd7:11205
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identifier
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11591
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Creator
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Oualhaci, Akim,
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Contributor
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William Kornblum
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Date
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2012
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Ethnic studies | Cultural anthropology | Recreation | Black studies | African American studies
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Abstract
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This work is a comparative analysis of ethnoracial domination and urban marginality in the United States and France that aims at studying two social spaces of relegation, the black ghetto in the U.S. and the working-class suburbs in France.;The ethnographic study of bodybuilding and Thai boxing in the black American ghetto and the French working-class suburb has allowed me to account for the incorporation of the social through a bodily practice and its translation into social strategies. Because they have adopted a new cosmogony, the young men of working-class suburb and the black ghetto build a carnal solidarity in practice and reproduce the social honor of the group challenged by various social mechanisms of stigmatization and marginalization in a the context of job insecurity and unemployment. At the same time, these bodily practices prevent practitioners from getting involved in a deviant career because they occupy and fix the agents, and because they internalize a set of "values" that give a meaning and a direction to their everyday life.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
