| 'Stony the Road' to Change: Black Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations Contributor(s): Thomas-Houston, Marilyn M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521829097 ISBN-13: 9780521829090 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $63.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2004 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.896 |
| LCCN: 2004044243 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 8.9" (0.95 lbs) 232 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
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Contributor Bio(s): Thomas-Houston, Marilyn M.: - 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. |