Ascension [electronic resource] : the sociology of an African American family's generational journey / Lois Benjamin.
2024
E185.86
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Title
Ascension [electronic resource] : the sociology of an African American family's generational journey / Lois Benjamin.
ISBN
9798890887030 (electronic bk.)
9781469678665
1469678667
9781469678672
1469678675
9781469678665
1469678667
9781469678672
1469678675
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2024]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
E185.86
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.85/089960730756
Summary
In this masterful work of family-focused sociology, Lois Benjamin considers the lives of Pennie and Roscoe James and their children, revealing how a large, close-knit African American family with humble origins in a small town of North Carolina is shaped by the contours of its religious and ethical value system. Despite the challenges of daily experiences, the James elders transmitted values to their children that provided them with the resources to thrive and the resilience to meet adversity. The James children recount their personal, unique perspectives on how faith, familial solidarity, and savvy entrepreneurship led to their continued generational success. Benjamin uses a blend of ethnographic and qualitative methods to place the James family's experiences in broader historical context. In doing so, she shows that the family's values of compassion, empathy, and communitarian and enterprising spirit offer hope in this polarized society.
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Table of Contents
Foreword / by Austin Brett Bogues
A Curious Chance Encounter: A Social Explorer Meets a NASA STEM Problem Solver
Roscoe James: Dreaming the Legacy of a Good Name
Samuel James: Bearing the Good Name
Quilting Threads of Consciousness: The Good Name That Binds the Jameses
Quilting Threads of Consciousness: The Dilemmas of Duty and Living the Good Name
Binding the Good Name through Linking the Generational Chain
The Fruit of Pennie and Roscoe James' Good Name.
A Curious Chance Encounter: A Social Explorer Meets a NASA STEM Problem Solver
Roscoe James: Dreaming the Legacy of a Good Name
Samuel James: Bearing the Good Name
Quilting Threads of Consciousness: The Good Name That Binds the Jameses
Quilting Threads of Consciousness: The Dilemmas of Duty and Living the Good Name
Binding the Good Name through Linking the Generational Chain
The Fruit of Pennie and Roscoe James' Good Name.