Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps, family trees, figures, and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transcriptions
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- 1 On being long in company
- 2 A boy finds his mama(s)
- 3 The closeness of strangers
- 4 Embracing talk
- 5 Lines of vision
- 6 The hand of play
- 7 Ways with time and words
- 8 Shaping the mainstream
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Ethnography as biography and autobiography
- Appendix B On methods of social history and ethnography
- Notes to text
- References
- Index
1 - On being long in company
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps, family trees, figures, and tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on transcriptions
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- 1 On being long in company
- 2 A boy finds his mama(s)
- 3 The closeness of strangers
- 4 Embracing talk
- 5 Lines of vision
- 6 The hand of play
- 7 Ways with time and words
- 8 Shaping the mainstream
- Epilogue
- Appendix A Ethnography as biography and autobiography
- Appendix B On methods of social history and ethnography
- Notes to text
- References
- Index
Summary
This book traces families in the United States across three decades from the recession of the early 1980s into the recession that began in 2007. The first generation grew up knowing only the Piedmont Carolinas, the center of the textile industry that had emerged at the end of the Civil War.
Manufacturing and agriculture set the rhythm of their lives. Racial segregation and marked discrepancies in quality of housing, transportation, and education kept black and white, poor and middle class, living in separate worlds. Their families had grown up with a dedication to God and acceptance of “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done . . .” Tomorrow would surely dawn very much as today had, and nightfall would come after sundown just as always.
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- Words at Work and PlayThree Decades in Family and Community Life, pp. 8 - 22Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012