BBER Ch. 3 Daytona

[John Bailey]

The exchange here seems to be very knowingly racist, with both Maxine
and Daytona having a mock fight deploying racist tropes. Seems to be
the kind you can only have when you trust that you're both being
tongue-in-cheek. This pattern repeats throughout the book, with lots
of characters joking about the stereotypes surrounding their own
ethnicity and assuming that others get the gag.

BTW, I only know 'Daytona' from the hugely popular arcade video game
by the same name. It's a 'racing' game, of course.

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Dave Monroe
<against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Daytona Lorrain
>
> The baby girl name Daytona is also used as a boy name. It is
> pronounced as DeyTOWNah †. Daytona is of English origin. The name
> Daytona means 'sunny town'.
>
> http://www.babynamespedia.com/meaning/Daytona/f
>
> In American, the name Daytona means- speedy. The name Daytona
> orginated as an American name. The name Daytona is most often used as
> a girl name or female name.
>
> http://www.meaning-of-names.com/american-names/daytona.asp
>
> Daytona Beach, Volusia County -- Daytona Beach is named after its
> founder, Mathias Day.
>
> http://www.flheritage.com/facts/reports/names/#D
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daytona_Beach,_Florida#History
>
> Lorrain is a dialect (often referred to as patois) spoken by a
> minority of people in Lorraine in France, small parts of Alsace and in
> Gaume in Belgium.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorrain_dialect
>
>
> Night Train (BE, Ch. 3, p. 20)
>
> http://www.bumwine.com/nighttrain.html
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavored_fortified_wines#Brands
>
>
> "wine-ism," "therapism"
>
> Classism? Racism?
>
> Is Daytona's dialect/patois racist? Is Maxine's reference to Night Train?
>
>
> "'twelve-step people'"
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program
>
>
> "it all comes plotzing forth" (BE, Ch. 3, p. 20)
>
> From Yiddish פּלאַצן (platsn, “to split, crack, burst, explode”).
>
> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/plotz
>
> Cf. "a screaming comes across the sky" ...
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