Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE THE CULTURAL HISTORY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE REGION
- PART TWO SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, SOCIAL ACTION
- PART THREE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INTRARACIAL IDENTITY
- 5 “What's Race Got To Do With It?”
- 6 It's a White “Thang”: Ethnic Identifiers and the Loss of Cultural Codes
- 7 The Final (Af)front: Space and the Black Public Sphere
- Conclusion
- Appendix A Lafayette County Population Chart
- Appendix B Proclamation Honoring Ole Miss Demonstrators
- Appendix C Chancellor's Statement of Commendation
- Appendix D Speech by Susie Marshall for Second Baptist Church Honoring Rev. Blind Jim Ivy
- Appendix E Susie Marshall's Unpublished Draft of Freedman Town Marker Dedication Speech Recounting July 4, 1867, Speech of Oxford Ex-slave
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - It's a White “Thang”: Ethnic Identifiers and the Loss of Cultural Codes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART ONE THE CULTURAL HISTORY AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE REGION
- PART TWO SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS, SOCIAL ACTION
- PART THREE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INTRARACIAL IDENTITY
- 5 “What's Race Got To Do With It?”
- 6 It's a White “Thang”: Ethnic Identifiers and the Loss of Cultural Codes
- 7 The Final (Af)front: Space and the Black Public Sphere
- Conclusion
- Appendix A Lafayette County Population Chart
- Appendix B Proclamation Honoring Ole Miss Demonstrators
- Appendix C Chancellor's Statement of Commendation
- Appendix D Speech by Susie Marshall for Second Baptist Church Honoring Rev. Blind Jim Ivy
- Appendix E Susie Marshall's Unpublished Draft of Freedman Town Marker Dedication Speech Recounting July 4, 1867, Speech of Oxford Ex-slave
- Bibliography
- Index
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- 'Stony the Road' to ChangeBlack Mississippians and the Culture of Social Relations, pp. 147 - 163Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004