Wright Austin The Transformation of Plantation Politics

Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8158-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in African American Studies

Examines the political and economic changes of recent decades in the Mississippi Delta.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wright Austin, Sharon D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Part One: The Theoretical Framework 1. The Influence of Local Elites in the Mississippi Delta
Part Two: The Plantation Political and Economic Culture 2. The “Cotton-Obsessed, Negro-Obsessed” Delta Plantation Economy 3. Black Mobilization and Elite Resistance during the Height of Traditionalistic Plantation Political Rule
Part Three: The Transformation and Legacies of the Plantation Culture

4. The Transformation of the Delta’s Economy?: Legalized Gaming, Economic Change, and the Persistence of Black Concentrated Poverty 5. The Transformation of Delta Plantation Politics 6. Building Black and Intergroup Social Capital Ties in the Delta
Part Four: Lessons Learned

7. The Challenges of Using Social Capital to Combat Community Ills in the Mississippi Delta
Notes
Appendixes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sharon D. Wright Austin is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and the author of Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis.