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The transformation of plantation politics : Black politics, concentrated poverty, and social capital in the Mississippi Delta
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- Creator
- Sharon D. Wright Austin
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2006]
- ©2006
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0791481581, 142941281X, 9780791468012, 9780791481585, 0791468011, 9781429412810
- OCLC
- ocm61461521, ocn923407885, ocm76299755
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
- The Theoretical Framework -- The Influence of Local Elites in the Mississippi Delta -- The Plantation Political and Economic Culture -- The "Cotton Obsessed, Negro Obsessed" Delta Plantation Economy -- Black Mobilization and Elite Resistance During the Height of Traditionalistic Plantation Political Rule -- The Transformation and Legacies of the Plantation Culture -- The Transformation of the Delta's Economy?: Legalized Gaming, Economic Change, and the Persistence of Black Concentrated Poverty -- The Transformation of Delta Plantation Politics -- Building Black and Intergroup Social Capital Ties in the Delta -- Lessons Learned -- The Challenges of Using Social Capital to Combat Community Ills in the Mississippi Delta
Subjects
- Plantation life -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Politics and government.
- Poverty -- Political aspects -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
- African Americans -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Social conditions.
- Elite (Social sciences) -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
- White people -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Social conditions.
- Social capital (Sociology) -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
- Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Race relations.
- Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Politics and government.
- Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Social conditions.