{"product_id":"race-social-reform-and-the-making-of-a-middle-class-the-american-missionary-association-and-black-atlanta-18701900-9780742535466","title":"Race Social Reform and the Making of a Middle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeriods 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book definitely expands our understanding of the urban post-emanicpation experience of southern African Americans. * The Journal of African American History *\u003cbr\u003eClear 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 *\u003cbr\u003eJoseph 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\u0026amp;M University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Introduction:  Race, Class Formation and Social Reform\t Chapter 2 \"Open and Urgent Fields of Labor\":  The American Missionary Association, Race, and Social Reform in the Black South \t Chapter 3 \"Up From Slavery\":  Structural and Cultural Foundations of Atlanta's Black Middle Class, 1870-1900\t Chapter 4 \"Black Ivy\":  Education, Race, and Class at Storrs Free School and Atlanta University\t\t Chapter 5 \"From 'Black Sheep' to 'Dusky Shepherds'\": Missionary Religion and the Making of a Black Middle Class Elite\t Chapter 6 Conclusion:  Race, Reform and Re-Making the Middle Class: A Theoretical Essay","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037590552919,"sku":"9780742535466","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/race-social-reform-and-the-making-of-a-middle-class-the-american-missionary-association-and-black-atlanta-18701900-9780742535466","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}