"Stony the road" to change
Subtitle: Black Mississippians and the culture of social relations
By: Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: African Americans -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- Social conditions; African Americans -- Mississippi -- Oxford -- Politics and government; African Americans -- Ethnic identity -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Pluralism (Social sciences) -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Social action -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Social change -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Community life -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Oxford (Miss.) -- Social conditions
Description: "This book is the result of an ethnographic study of 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. Second, it argues for the consideration of nontraditional approaches to studying the Black experience - a focus away from race relations and issues of class and an emphasis on intragroup interaction and diversity. Third, 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-208) and index.
Based on author's thesis (Ph. D.)--New York University, 1997.