Kings of Mississippi : Race, Religious Education, and the Making of a Middle-Class Black Family in the Segregated South PDF
by Sandra L. Barnes, Benita Blanford-Jones
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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.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/03/2019
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:21/03/2019
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- ISBN:9781108337335
