'Stony the Road' to Change

This book is the result of an ethnographic study on the impact of Black cultural diversity on social action. The ethnography has three important characteristics. First it incorporates the multiple perspectives of the ethnographer with the diverse voices of the people through an unusual form of reflexivity that provides additional insight for the descriptions analyses and conclusions of the book. This epistemological method is used to challenge traditional structures of ethnographies. Secondly it argues for the consideration of non-traditional approaches to studying the Black experience - a focus away from race relations and issues of class and an emphasis on intragroup interaction and diversity. Thirdly it investigates the processes social institutions and structures within the Black community of a small college town that influence social change and social action since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.