The transformation of plantation politics : Black politics, concentrated poverty, and social capital in the Mississippi Delta /
Wright Austin, Sharon D.,1965-
Albany : State University of New York Press,
c2006.
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.
Plantation life
African Americans
Poverty
African Americans
Elite (Social sciences)
Whites
Social capital (Sociology)