This is a participant-observer's account of African American life in a small Southern town just prior to the Civil Rights era.Consisting of "Blackways of Kent" (1955), "Millways of Kent" (1958), and "Townways of Kent", the "Kent Trilogy" forms a remarkable southern ethnography that maps the social stratification of the Piedmont town of York, South Carolina, in the late 1940s, after the Great Depression and before Civil Rights era. In 1946 the University of North Carolina's Institute for Research in Social Science commissioned a series of southern community studies from which these volumes...