Land, Promise, and Peril - Race and Stratification in the Rural South (Hardcover)

In Langston Hughes' 'Mother to Son,' (1922), written at a time of dramatic disruption in the American economy and continued tyranny in the lives of Black people, urban and rural, the Mother pleads with the child not to give up. She tells the child that she has been 'a climbing on, reaching landings and turning corners.' Not only did the seven families chronicled in this unique study not give up, while both losing and gaining ground, they managed to sponsor a generation of children, several of whom reached the middle and upper-middle classes. Land, Promise, and Peril chronicles the actions, actors, and events that propelled legal racism and quelled it, showing how leadership and political institutions play a crucial role in shaping the pace and quality of exits from poverty. Despite great odds, some domestics, sharecroppers, tenants, and farmers and their children navigated pathways toward the middle class and beyond.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
Release date:	2023
Authors:	Mary D. Coleman
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-00-918256-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Business & Economics > Economics > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > Social mobility
LSN:	1-00-918256-0
Barcode:	9781009182560

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