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Land, Promise, and Peril - Race and Stratification in the Rural South (Hardcover)
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Land, Promise, and Peril - Race and Stratification in the Rural South (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
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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.
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