{"product_id":"9781108424066","title":"The Kings of Mississippi: Race, Religious Education, and the Making of a Middle-Class Black Family in the Segregated South","description":"Kings of Mississippi examines how a twentieth-century black middle-class family navigated life in rural Mississippi. The book introduces seven generations of a farming family and provides an organic examination of how the family experienced life and economic challenges as one of few middle-class black families living and working alongside the many struggling black and white sharecroppers and farmers in Gallman, Mississippi. Family narratives and census data across time and a socio-ecological lens help assess how race, religion, education, and key employment options influenced economic and non-economic outcomes. Family voices explain how intangible beliefs fueled socioeconomic outcomes despite racial, gender, and economic stratification. The book also examines the effects of stratification changes across time, including: post-migration; inter- and intra-racial conflicts and compromises; and, strategic decisions and outcomes. The book provides an unexpected glimpse at how a family's ethos can foster upward mobility into the middle-class.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46446831829233,"sku":"9781108424066","price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781108424066_p0.jpg?v=1765132171","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781108424066","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}