{"product_id":"the-kings-of-mississippi-race-religious-education-and-the-making-of-a-middle-class-black-family-in-the-segregated-south-hardback-9781108424066","title":"The Kings of Mississippi; Race, Religious Education, and the Making of a Middle-Class Black Family in the Segregated South (Hardback) 9781108424066","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Kings of Mississippi\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRace, Religious Education, and the Making of a Middle-Class Black Family in the Segregated South\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines how a twentieth-century middle-class black family navigated life in stratified rural Mississippi.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSandra L. Barnes (Author), Benita Blanford-Jones (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108424066, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e254 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'This provocative, well-crafted book greatly extends research on Black families rooted in and migrating from the Deep South. Barnes and Blanford-Jones provide a revealing socio-ecological window of understanding into the worlds of Black families over generations of constructing lives in the face of white racism and poverty. From richly detailed interviews, we see these courageous Americans proactively and often successfully drawing on landed, religious (Black churches), educational (Black schools), and resistance (counter-framing) capital to not only surmount omnipresent barriers to individual and family mobility but also help build a much better America.' Joe Feagin, Texas A \u0026amp; M University and author of Racist America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eKings 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: a black family from Mississippi as a socio-ecological phenomenon\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'My own land and a milk cow': race, space, class, and gender as embedded elements of a black southern terrain\u003cbr\u003e 2. 'Bikes or lights': familial decisions in the context of inequality\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'Getting to the school on time': formal education and beyond\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Jesus and the juke joint': blurred and bordered boundaries and boundary crossing\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'Keeping God's favor': contemporary black families and systemic change\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: 'what would Big Mama do?' Activation and routinization of a black family's ethos.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Social \u0026amp; cultural anthropology, ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Social%20\u0026amp;%20cultural%20anthropology,%20ethnography%20%5BJHMC%5D%22\"\u003eJHMC\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], Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\u003c\/a\u003e], Black \u0026amp; Asian studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Black \u0026amp; Asian studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Black%20\u0026amp;%20Asian%20studies%20%5BJFSL3%5D%22\"\u003eJFSL3\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266269303064,"sku":"9781108424066","price":48.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108424066i_81240e7f-3bae-44fb-8d93-b9bff7f68c29.jpg?v=1696694974","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-kings-of-mississippi-race-religious-education-and-the-making-of-a-middle-class-black-family-in-the-segregated-south-hardback-9781108424066","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}