Rules for Ritual Insults

Abstract

A great variety of terms describe this activity: 1 the dozens, sounding and signifying are three of the most common. The activity itself is remarkably similar throughout the various black communities, both in the form and content of the insults themselves and in the rules of verbal interaction which operate. In this section we will refer to the institution by the most common term in Harlem — sounding.

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