The Kings of Mississippi : race, religious education, and the making of a middle-class black family in the segregated South / Sandra L. Barnes, Benita Blanford-Jones.

"The King family was a 20th century anomaly - a middle class black family living in rural Mississippi. Academic studies, mainstream writing, and anecdotes corroborate the same reality - that blacks living in the historic South experienced deleterious conditions due to racism, segregation, and de jur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Barnes, Sandra L. (Author)
Blanford-Jones, Benita, 1973- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Series:Cambridge studies in stratification economics.
Subjects:
King family.
African American families > Mississippi > Social conditions > 20th century.
Middle class African Americans > Mississippi > Social conditions > 20th century.
Middle class families > Mississippi > Social conditions > 20th century.
African American families > Social conditions.
Mississippi.
1900-1999
Physical Description:ix, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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