Description
Book SynopsisPeriods of time characterized by large scale social change encourage reinterpretations of the meanings of categories like race and class, strategies for their reproduction, and their relationship to one another as social structures. The racialized nature of class identities makes movements, which attempt to redistribute class resources.
Trade ReviewThis book definitely expands our understanding of the urban post-emanicpation experience of southern African Americans. * The Journal of African American History *
Clear and logical... its legacy will be precisely in what it does to draw attention to and encourage further research on the specific historical processes of racial class formation in the African-American community. * American Journal of Sociology, November 2008 *
Joseph Jewell's book is a cutting-edge effort in sociologically informed historical analysis, one that probes deeply into the making of the Black middle class, primarily in the city of Atlanta in the years 1875-1915. Demonstrating significant research imagination, Jewell shows clearly, and with original data collection and reanalysis of previous studies, how the social reform efforts of northern missionary organizations both facilitated and frustrated the growth of a new Black middle class. -- Joe R. Feagin, Texas A&M University
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Race, Class Formation and Social Reform Chapter 2 "Open and Urgent Fields of Labor": The American Missionary Association, Race, and Social Reform in the Black South Chapter 3 "Up From Slavery": Structural and Cultural Foundations of Atlanta's Black Middle Class, 1870-1900 Chapter 4 "Black Ivy": Education, Race, and Class at Storrs Free School and Atlanta University Chapter 5 "From 'Black Sheep' to 'Dusky Shepherds'": Missionary Religion and the Making of a Black Middle Class Elite Chapter 6 Conclusion: Race, Reform and Re-Making the Middle Class: A Theoretical Essay
