'Stony the Road' to Change
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 23 December 2009
- 22 November 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780511614149
- 9780521829090
- 9780521535984
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.423kg, 232 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.315kg, 230 Pages
- Subjects:
- Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Sociology
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Book description
This book is the result of an ethnographic study on the impact of Black cultural diversity on social action. The ethnography has three important characteristics. First, it incorporates the multiple perspectives of the ethnographer with the diverse voices of the people through an unusual form of reflexivity that provides additional insight for the descriptions, analyses, and conclusions of the book. This epistemological method is used to challenge traditional structures of ethnographies. Secondly, it argues for the consideration of non-traditional approaches to studying the Black experience - a focus away from race relations and issues of class and an emphasis on intragroup interaction and diversity. Thirdly, it investigates the processes, social institutions, and structures within the Black community of a small college town that influence social change and social action since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Reviews
‘The involvement of the black community in a southern town during the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s may not seem like the classic setting for an ethnography but Thomas-Houston demonstrates that in deft hands anthropological analysis is not constrained by time or place.’
William Arens - Stony Brook University
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