The Kings of Mississippi : race, religious education, and the making of a middle-class black family in the segregated South
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The Kings of Mississippi : race, religious education, and the making of a middle-class black family in the segregated South
(Cambridge studies in stratification economics : economics and social identity)
Cambridge University Press, 2019
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 226-238
Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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