TY - BOOK ID - 85485168 TI - The Kings of Mississippi : race, religious education, and the making of a middle-class black family in the segregated South AU - Barnes, Sandra L. AU - Blanford-Jones, Benita PY - 2019 SN - 1108337333 1108539653 1108335764 1108424066 1108439330 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - African American families KW - Middle class African Americans KW - Middle class families KW - Families KW - African Americans KW - Middle class KW - Afro-American families KW - Families, African American KW - Negro families KW - Social conditions KW - King family. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85485168 AB - 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. ER -