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Author Wright Austin, Sharon D., 1965-

Title The transformation of plantation politics : Black politics, concentrated poverty, and social capital in the Mississippi Delta / Sharon D. Wright Austin.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 247 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series SUNY series in African American studies
SUNY series in African American studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-233) and index.
Contents 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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Subject Plantation life -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
Plantation life.
Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Politics and government.
African Americans.
Politics and government.
Poverty -- Political aspects -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
Poverty -- Political aspects.
Poverty.
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
Elite (Social sciences)
White people -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- Social conditions.
White people.
Social capital (Sociology) -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
Social capital (Sociology)
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Race relations.
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Politics and government.
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wright Austin, Sharon D., 1965- Transformation of plantation politics. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2006 0791468011 (DLC) 2005024114 (OCoLC)61461521
ISBN 142941281X (electronic book)
9781429412810 (electronic book)
0791468011 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780791468012