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This lively and concise supplemental text uses analyses of everyday conversations and experiences to inspire students to think sociologically about society and about themselves as social actors.

A biography that follows the lives of Matthew Mason and Anthony Atwater explores the dilemma of ordinary working-class black men trying to cope in a white society while attempting to reconcile the contradiction that arises between the expectation of control and the reality of powerlessness.