'Stony the Road' to Change : Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations

by Thomas-Houston, Marilyn M.

• ISBN13: 9780511079450
• ISBN10: 0511079451
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-11-22
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book is the result of an ethnographic study on the impact of Black cultural diversity on social action. The ethnography has three important characteristics. First, it incorporates the multiple perspectives of the ethnographer with the diverse voices of the people through an unusual form of reflexivity that provides additional insight for the descriptions, analyses, and conclusions of the book. This epistemological method is used to challenge traditional structures of ethnographies. Secondly, it argues for the consideration of non-traditional approaches to studying the Black experience - a focus away from race relations and issues of class and an emphasis on intragroup interaction and diversity. Thirdly, it investigates the processes, social institutions, and structures within the Black community of a small college town that influence social change and social action since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

Table of Contents

The Cultural History of the Region

Placing the stones: an historical look at the construction of a region

Getting around the stones: the civil rights movement

Social Consciousness, Social Action

Social consciousness and black public culture

Social action in practice

Construction of an Intra-Racial Identity

The interconnection of place, space, and belonging

It's a white 'thang': ethnic identifiers

Space: the final (AF) front

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