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The Kings of Mississippi

The Kings of Mississippi

Barnes, Sandra L.
Blanford-Jones, Benita

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and

EconomicsGeneral ParentingGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1108439330
ISBN13: 9781108439336
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 21 2019
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.60 Width: 8.40 Depth: 9.00
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.

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