Land, Promise, and Peril: Race and Stratification in the Rural South

ISBN-13: 9781009182560 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str.

Mary D. Coleman

Opis

A unique qualitative study of race and economic and social mobility across generations for seven families from the Mississippi Delta.

Spis treści

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation: 1. Families' cross-century struggles to leave dispossession behind; 2. The sunflower county delta; 3. Multigenerational injury, insult, and adversity; 4. Patterns of dispossession; 5. Manufactured and natural disasters; 6. Position-taking in the nation; Part II. Family Interiority and Economic Mobility Pathways: 7. Perennial sharecroppers; 8. Quasi-croppers; 9. The mule-renter; 10. The kinship farmers; 11. Contemporaries of the second generation of the sunflower seven; 12. The central hills family in struggle; Part III. Pathways Toward Upward Economic Mobility: 13. Beyond caste in higher education; 14. The war on poverty in sunflower; 15. What the scholarship tells us; 16. Insights and valedictory; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.