Author: Thomas-Houston, Marilyn N.
Title: Stony the Road" to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations
Description: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2005). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xii,213 pp, A label to rear cover. Small bump to spine.. A dent to front cover. VG. ¶ Contents: The Cultural History of the Region: Placing the stones: an historical look at the construction of a region; Getting around the stones:the civil rights movement; Social Consciousness, Social Action: Social consciousness and black public culture; Social action in practice; Construction of an Intra-Racial Identity: The interconnection of place, spacr, and belonging; It's a white 'thang': ethnic identifiers; Space: the final (AF) front. ["This intra-group anthropological study examines the impact of history, memory, space, and the concept of belonging on the social structure of a Southern, small-town Black community. Using the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s as the point of departure for a critique of the culture of social relations among Blacks, it also proposes to provide an example of activist, native ethnographic research in a complex society." - Publisher's description]

Keywords: African American Minority, African-Americans, Black Minorities, United States Race, American Blacks, Oxford Mississippi, Ethnicity Sociology, Ethnography Ethnic, Social Anthropology