Home Training Some call it good manners; in African American vernacular, it's called "home training." With Basic Black: Home Training for Modern Times, media freelancers Karen Grigsby Bates and Karen Elyse Hudson provide a modern African American alternative to Emily Post and Miss Manners. Addressed to the growing black middle class, this user-friendly volume is filled with information on social rites of passage, the new corporate workplace and everyday rules and rituals that make for more gracious living. Covering such situations as how to handle yourself in a restaurant where you've received unacceptable treatment, common courtesies to be shown to household help and how to respond to racial harassment at work, Bates and Hudson offer a guide that will be of benefit to men and women, singles and families.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
To some it's "etiquette" or "socialization," but to many African Americans it's "Home Training"?instruction in accepted mores and values. This tradition has not been explored in other etiquette books, but here the job is undertaken "the way our grandmothers, mothers and aunts have taught us for centuries." Bates (a contributing columnist to the Los Angeles Times) and Hudson (Paul R. Williams, Architect, LJ 1/94) address not only those good manners that are universal but also unique African American observances and the delicate art of being both polite and assertive in response to unacceptable treatment or thoughtless remarks. Recommended for public libraries.?Susan B. Hagloch, Tuscarawas Cty. P.L., New Philadelphia, Ohio
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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