'Stony the Road' to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations - Softcover

Thomas-Houston, Marilyn M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521535980 ISBN 13: 9780521535984

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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Book Description:

An anthropological study of issues within a Black community that affect social action, political participation, and social cohesion. It is an intra-group study that examines the impact of history, memory, space, and the concept of belonging on the social structure of this Southern, small-town Black community. It uses the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s as the point from which it forms a critique of the culture of social relations among Blacks. In addition, the book proposes to provide an example of activist, native ethnographic research in a complex society and engaged anthropology.

About the Author:

Marilyn M. Thomas-Houston is currently Interim Director of African American Studies and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at the University of Florida. She received her PhD. in 1997 from New York University in Cultural Anthropology and a Graduate Certificate in Ethnographic Film during the same year. In addition to an MPhil. and MA in Anthropology from NYU, she also holds an M.A. in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi. She is a member of the American Anthropologist Association, a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Visual Anthropology (holding the office of Treasurer), a member of the Association of Black Anthropologists, and a member of the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Her research interests focus primarily on people of African descent in complex societies, power relations, development, transnational processes, social movements, and identity.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521535980
• ISBN 13: 9780521535984
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 230