Blackways of Kent

by Hylan Lewis

Book Overview

An account from a participant-observer of African American life in a small Southern town prior to the civil rights eras

The Kent Trilogy, consisting of Blackways of Kent (1955), Millways of Kent (1958), and the previously unpublished Townways of Kent, forms a remarkable Southern ethnography that maps the social stratification of the piedmont mill town of York, South Carolina, in the late 1940s. In 1946 the University...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570037256
• ISBN13: 9781570037252
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.0"