The Kings of Mississippi(English, Hardcover, Barnes Sandra L.)

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The Kings of Mississippi(English, Hardcover, Barnes Sandra L.) is written by Barnes Sandra L. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1108424066 (ISBN 10) and 9781108424066 (ISBN 13).

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.