The Kings of Mississippi : race, religious education, and the making of a middle-class black family in the segregated South

Resource Information

The work The Kings of Mississippi : race, religious education, and the making of a middle-class black family in the segregated South represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The Kings of Mississippi : race, religious education, and the making of a middle-class black family in the segregated South

Title remainder

race, religious education, and the making of a middle-class black family in the segregated South

Statement of responsibility

Sandra L. Barnes, Benita Blanford-Jones

Creator

• Barnes, Sandra L

Contributor

• Blanford-Jones, Benita, 1973-

Author

• Blanford-Jones, Benita, 1973-

Subject

• Middle class African Americans -- Mississippi -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Middle class families -- Mississippi -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• African American families -- Mississippi -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• King family

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in stratification economics

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge studies in stratification economics : economics and social identity
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks