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AUTHOR: Kaplan, Michael.
TITLE: New York City tavern violence and the creation of a working-
class male identity.
SOURCE: Journal of the Early Republic v. 15 (Winter '95) p. 591-617
ABSTRACTS: An examination of tavern violence by urban working-class men
in 19th-century America. The writer discusses the explosion
in the number of taverns in New York City between 1830 and
1860, their roles as centers of working-class social life and
recreation, and the corresponding increase in the frequency of
tavern disturbances. These factors, he states, suggest that
tavern violence embodied the major threads of social conflict
and change in the city. He maintains that tavern disturbances
helped define the new democratic, urban working-class culture
of the mid 19th century and fostered a distinct working-class
male identity centered on public assertions of physical
courage, independence, class pride, and American patriotism.
He concludes that these disturbances affirmed values among
workingmen that were central to Jacksonian American culture,
although rendered in brutal parody.
STANDARD NO: 0275-1275
DATE: 1995
PLACE: United States
LANGUAGE: English
RECORD TYPE: art
CONTENTS: feature article
SUBJECT: Violence - United States.
Class consciousness.
Masculinity (Psychology).
New York (N.Y.) - Labor and laboring classes.
New York (N.Y.) - Bars, saloons, etc.
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