The Kings of Mississippi
Race, Religious Education, and the Making of a Middle-Class Black Family in the Segregated South
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Sociology
| Author: | Sandra L. Barnes, Benita Blanford-Jones | ISBN: | 9781108335768 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | Publication: | March 21, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sandra L. Barnes, Benita Blanford-Jones |
| ISBN: | 9781108335768 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication: | March 21, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Cambridge University Press |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
