Kings of Mississippi (eBook)

Race, Religious Education, and the Making of a Middle-Class Black Family in the Segregated South

Sandra L. Barnes, Benita Blanford-Jones (Autoren)

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2019
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-33733-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.3.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-108-33733-3 / 1108337333
• ISBN-13: 978-1-108-33733-5 / 9781108337335