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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction An Overview of the book -- Introduction -- Why These Cities Were Chosen -- The Survey -- The Racial Group Identification and Consciousness Variables -- Linkage Between Group Consciousness and Political Participation -- The Challenges Black Ethnics Pose for African American Politics -- The Black Ethnic Groups in This Research -- Cape Verdeans -- Haitians -- West Indians -- The Chapters -- Chapter 1 Political Participation, Group Consciousness, and the Minority Group Model -- Introduction -- African American Political Participation -- The Concepts of Group Consciousness and Linked Fate -- The Minority Group Model -- African American Political Incorporation -- Black Ethnic Political Incorporation -- Chapter 2 Politics in the New Boston: The Majority-Minority Challenge to the Yankee-Irish Political Hegemony -- Introduction -- Irish Political Domination, Black Population Growth, and Early Black Political Efforts -- Black Political Mobilization During the Modern Civil Rights Era -- Mel King's 1983 Mayoral Campaign -- Political Frustration and the Call for Secession: The Mandela City Movement -- An Increased Black Population, Haitian and Cape Verdean Political Victories -- The Racial Group Identification and Consciousness of Black Bostonians -- The Impact of Group Consciousness on Political Participation -- Contemporary Black Politics in Boston -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Chicago Politics: Black Participation and the Need for a Progressive Coalition -- Introduction -- Residential Segregation in a Polarized City -- African American Voters and the Daley Machine -- The Post-daley Years: The Continuing Search for a Responsive Mayor -- Washington Wins, but Faces Fierce Machine Opposition -- Black Political Incorporation During the Washington Administration

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.