Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon"

Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 191
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ISBN-10 : 9781498551106
ISBN-13 : 1498551106
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Book Synopsis Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon" by : David J. Puglia

Download or read book Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon" written by David J. Puglia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging “hon” to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over the identity associated with Baltimore culture. Each time, controversy followed leading to consequences ranging from protests and boycotts to formal legislative action. “Hon” brought into focus Baltimore’s past and future by symbolizing lingering divisions of race, class, gender, and belonging in the midst of campaigns to unify and modernize the city. While some decried “hon” and “the Hon” as embarrassing, others hailed the word and the related image of a down-to-earth, blue-collar woman as emblematic of the authentic Baltimorean. This book tells the story of the battles that flared over the attempts to use “hon” to construct a citywide local tradition and their consequences for the future of local culture in the United States.


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