The transformation of plantation politics : Black politics, concentrated poverty, and social capital in the Mississippi Delta / Sharon D. Wright Austin
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index
