Title "Stony the road" to change : Black Mississippians and the culture of social relations / Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 213 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE THE CULTURAL HISTORY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE REGION; PART TWO SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, SOCIAL ACTION; PART THREE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INTRARACIAL IDENTITY; Conclusion; Appendix A Lafayette County Population Chart; Appendix B Proclamation Honoring Ole Miss Demonstrators; Appendix C Chancellor's Statement of Commendation; Appendix D Speech by Susie Marshall for Second Baptist Church Honoring Rev. Blind Jim Ivy Appendix E Susie Marshall's Unpublished Draft of Freedmen Town Marker Dedication Speech Recounting July 4, 1867, Speech ... Bibliography; Index Summary An intra-group study examining the impact of history, memory, space, and the concept of belonging on the social structure of a Southern, small-town, Black community. It uses the 1960s Civil Rights Movement as the point from which it forms a critique of the culture of social relations among Blacks Notes Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University, 1997 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-208) and index Notes Print version record Subject African Americans -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- Social conditions African Americans -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- Politics and government African Americans -- Race identity -- Mississippi -- Oxford Cultural pluralism -- Mississippi -- Oxford Social action -- Mississippi -- Oxford Social change -- Mississippi -- Oxford Community life -- Mississippi -- Oxford SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies. African Americans -- Politics and government African Americans -- Race identity African Americans -- Social conditions Community life Cultural pluralism Social action Social change Social conditions Ethnische Identität Sozialer Wandel Soziale Situation Politik SUBJECT Oxford (Miss.) -- Social conditions Subject Mississippi -- Oxford Oxford, Miss. Schwärze Form Electronic book LC no. 2004044243 ISBN 0511080972 9780511080975 9780511614149 0511614144 9780511080210 0511080212 1280434775 9781280434778 9786610434770 6610434778

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