ISBN:
9781108539654
,
9781108424066
,
9781108439336
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (ix, 246 pages)
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in stratification economics : economics and social identity
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Barnes, Sandra L. The Kings of Mississippi
DDC:
306.85/0899607307620904
Keywords:
King family
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African American families Social conditions 20th century
;
Middle class African Americans Social conditions 20th century
;
Middle class families Social conditions 20th century
;
King family
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African American families ; Mississippi ; Social conditions ; 20th century
;
Middle class African Americans ; Mississippi ; Social conditions ; 20th century
;
Middle class families ; Mississippi ; Social conditions ; 20th century
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USA
;
Afrikaner
;
Familie
;
Mittelstand
;
Rassendiskriminierung
;
Religiöse Erziehung
Abstract:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Mar 2019)
DOI:
10.1017/9781108539654
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108539654
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