Jelly Roll: A Black Neighborhood in a Southern Mill Town

by Charles E. Thomas and Charles E. Thomas

Book Overview

Jelly Roll, a small community of African Americans living in company housing outside the Calion Lumber Company in Calion, Arkansas, is the subject of this classic Arkansas ethnography written by Charles E. Thomas, an anthropologist whose family owned the mill. Originally published in 1986, Jelly Roll combines Thomas's unique perspective as both an academician and the grandson of the sawmill's founder. Thomas conducted extensive interviews...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557289824
• ISBN13: 9781557289827
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"