Raised Up Down Yonder: Growing Up Black in Rural Alabama

by Angela McMillan Howell

Overview

A classic ethnographic study of rural children, their community, and their school

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781617038822
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	11/01/2013
Series:	Margaret Walker Alexander Series in African American Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Angela McMillan Howell, Baltimore, Maryland, is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at Morgan State University. Her work has been published in the Journal of African American Studies and Anthropology Now.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 3

Chapter 1 Rooted in Kin 21

Chapter 2 Descendants of a First Choice School 46

Chapter 3 Educated at the Last Chance School 67

Chapter 4 Reproducing Misfortune through Mess 95

Chapter 5 Resistance and Spirituality 129

Chapter 6 Not Just Down Yonder 145

Conclusion 174

Epilogue 181

Appendix: Interview Schedule 191

Notes 194

Bibliography 227

Index 239

Editorial Reviews

"Angela Howell offers a provocative and thoughtful study of the human story at Jay Ellis School, down yonder."

—Sharon G. Pierson, The Journal of African American History

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