Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Missippi Delta

In: SUNY Series in African American Studies

Abstract

Intro -- The Transformation of Plantation Politics -- CONTENTS -- 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 HEIGHTOF 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. CONCENTRATED POVERTY,POLITICAL POWER, AND SOCIAL CAPITAL IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA -- NOTES -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- APPENDIX C -- APPENDIX D -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.