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Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore "Hon" - The Folk in the City (Hardcover)
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Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore "Hon" - The Folk in the City (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Folklore and Ethnology: Traditions, Practices, and Identities
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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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