The transformation of plantation politics Black politics, concentrated poverty, and social capital in the Mississippi Delta - Wright Austin, Sharon D. (State University of New York Press, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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
Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Rural; African Americans / Politics and government; African Americans / Social conditions; Elite (Social sciences); Plantation life; Political science; Poverty / Political aspects; Race relations; Social capital (Sociology); Social history; Whites / Social conditions; Politik; Politische Wissenschaft; Schwarze. USA; Sozialgeschichte; 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); Whites -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Social conditions; Social capital (Sociology) -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region); Weiße; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Elite; Schwarze; Plantagenwirtschaft; Mississippidelta