{"product_id":"land-promise-and-peril-race-and-stratification-in-the-rural-south-paperback-softback-9781009182553","title":"Land, Promise, and Peril; Race and Stratification in the Rural South (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009182553","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLand, Promise, and Peril\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace and Stratification in the Rural South\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA unique qualitative study of race and economic and social mobility across generations for seven families from the Mississippi Delta.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMary D. Coleman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009182553, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 July 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e418 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm, 0.6 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn Langston Hughes' 'Mother to Son,' (1922), written at a time of dramatic disruption in the American economy and continued tyranny in the lives of Black people, urban and rural, the Mother pleads with the child not to give up. She tells the child that she has been 'a climbing on, reaching landings and turning corners.' Not only did the seven families chronicled in this unique study not give up, while both losing and gaining ground, they managed to sponsor a generation of children, several of whom reached the middle and upper-middle classes. Land, Promise, and Peril chronicles the actions, actors, and events that propelled legal racism and quelled it, showing how leadership and political institutions play a crucial role in shaping the pace and quality of exits from poverty. Despite great odds, some domestics, sharecroppers, tenants, and farmers and their children navigated pathways toward the middle class and beyond.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation: 1. Families' cross-century struggles to leave dispossession behind\u003cbr\u003e 2. The sunflower county delta\u003cbr\u003e 3. Multigenerational injury, insult, and adversity\u003cbr\u003e 4. Patterns of dispossession\u003cbr\u003e 5. Manufactured and natural disasters\u003cbr\u003e 6. Position-taking in the nation\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Family Interiority and Economic Mobility Pathways: 7. Perennial sharecroppers\u003cbr\u003e 8. Quasi-croppers\u003cbr\u003e 9. The mule-renter\u003cbr\u003e 10. The kinship farmers\u003cbr\u003e 11. Contemporaries of the second generation of the sunflower seven\u003cbr\u003e 12. The central hills family in struggle\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Pathways Toward Upward Economic Mobility: 13. Beyond caste in higher education\u003cbr\u003e 14. The war on poverty in sunflower\u003cbr\u003e 15. What the scholarship tells us\u003cbr\u003e 16. Insights and valedictory\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economics%20%5BKC%5D%22\"\u003eKC\u003c\/a\u003e], Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e], Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e], Sociology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20%5BJHB%5D%22\"\u003eJHB\u003c\/a\u003e], African history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on African history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22African%20history%20%5BHBJH%5D%22\"\u003eHBJH\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52410828980504,"sku":"9781009182553","price":27.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009182553i.jpg?v=1784252461","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/land-promise-and-peril-race-and-stratification-in-the-rural-south-paperback-softback-9781009182553","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}