Book contents
- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation
- 1 Families’ Cross-Century Struggles to Leave Dispossession Behind
- 2 The Sunflower County Delta
- 3 Multigenerational Injury, Insult, and Adversity
- 4 Patterns of Dispossession
- 5 Facing Promise and Peril
- 6 Position-Taking in the Nation
- Part II Family Interiority and Economic Mobility Pathways
- Part III Pathways toward Upward Economic Mobility
- Select Bibliography
- Index
1 - Families’ Cross-Century Struggles to Leave Dispossession Behind
from Part I - The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2023
Book contents
- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation
- 1 Families’ Cross-Century Struggles to Leave Dispossession Behind
- 2 The Sunflower County Delta
- 3 Multigenerational Injury, Insult, and Adversity
- 4 Patterns of Dispossession
- 5 Facing Promise and Peril
- 6 Position-Taking in the Nation
- Part II Family Interiority and Economic Mobility Pathways
- Part III Pathways toward Upward Economic Mobility
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Why have the greater number of blacks not been able to get and stay ahead? How have some, despite the unfavorable odds, been able to climb? What might we learn from the experience of this second group? These questions matter for our understanding of intergenerational and intra-generational thriving in the rural and urban contexts. In their totality, these and related questions enumerated throughout this work, invite an intentional focus on whether there have been and now are patterns to the routes, rates, and stability of movement toward the middle and upper class over two generations.
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- Land, Promise, and PerilRace and Stratification in the Rural South, pp. 3 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023