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Raised Up Down Yonder: Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama

Raised Up Down Yonder: Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama

Howell, Angela McMillan

Paperback

Series: Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies

AnthropologyBlack American StudiesGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1496804465
ISBN13: 9781496804464
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: Jul 24 2015
Pages: 258
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Raised Up Down Yonder attempts to shift focus away from why black youth are problematic to explore what their daily lives really entail. Howell travels to the small community of Hamilton, Alabama, to investigate what it is like for a young black person to grow up in the contemporary rural South. What she finds is that the young people of Hamilton are neither idly passing their time in a stereotypically languid setting, nor are they being corrupted by hip-hop culture and the perils of the urban North, as many pundits suggest. Rather, they are dynamic and diverse young people making their way through the structures that define the twenty-first-century South. Told through the poignant stories of several high school students, Raised Up Down Yonder reveals a group that is often rendered invisible in society. Blended families, football sagas, crunk music, expanding social networks, and a nearby segregated prom are just a few of the fascinating juxtapositions. Angela McMillan Howell is an assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Morgan State University. Her work has been published in the Journal of African American Studies and Anthropology Now.

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