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The Kings of Mississippi

Race, Religious Education, and the Making of a Middle-Class Black Family in the Segregated South
Buch | Softcover
256 Seiten
2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-43933-6 (ISBN)
CHF 39,95 inkl. MwSt
The King family was a twentieth-century anomaly: a middle-class black family in rural Mississippi. Using family narratives, census data, and employing a socio-ecological lens, this book illustrates how family decisions affected generations across time as they navigated dynamics like segregation, migration, education, religion, and urban living.
Kings of Mississippi examines how a twentieth-century black middle-class family navigated life in rural Mississippi. The book introduces seven generations of a farming family and provides an organic examination of how the family experienced life and economic challenges as one of few middle-class black families living and working alongside the many struggling black and white sharecroppers and farmers in Gallman, Mississippi. Family narratives and census data across time and a socio-ecological lens help assess how race, religion, education, and key employment options influenced economic and non-economic outcomes. Family voices explain how intangible beliefs fueled socioeconomic outcomes despite racial, gender, and economic stratification. The book also examines the effects of stratification changes across time, including: post-migration; inter- and intra-racial conflicts and compromises; and, strategic decisions and outcomes. The book provides an unexpected glimpse at how a family's ethos can foster upward mobility into the middle-class.

Sandra L. Barnes is a Sociology Professor in the Department of Human and Organizational Development at Vanderbilt University and the first female African American Assistant Vice Chancellor. She is the author of Empowering Black Youth of Promise (2016), Live Long and Prosper, and The Costs of Being Poor (2005). Benita Blanford-Jones develops and leads several urban youth empowerment and educational mentoring programs. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Sociology and a Master's degree in Human Services Administration from Indiana University Northwest.

Introduction: a black family from Mississippi as a socio-ecological phenomenon; 1. 'My own land and a milk cow': race, space, class, and gender as embedded elements of a black southern terrain; 2. 'Bikes or lights': familial decisions in the context of inequality; 3. 'Getting to the school on time': formal education and beyond; 4. 'Jesus and the juke joint': blurred and bordered boundaries and boundary crossing; 5. 'Keeping God's favor': contemporary black families and systemic change; Conclusion: 'what would Big Mama do?' Activation and routinization of a black family's ethos.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 228 mm
Gewicht 370 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-108-43933-0 / 1108439330
ISBN-13 978-1-108-43933-6 / 9781108439336
Zustand Neuware
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