Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. The Theoretical Framework
8. The Influence of Local Elites in the Mississippi Delta 3
9. The Plantation Political and Economic Culture
10. The “Cotton-Obsessed, Negro-Obsessed” Delta Plantation Economy 25
11. Black Mobilization and Elite Resistance During the Height of Traditionalistic Plantation Political Rule 41
12. The Transformation and Legacies of the Plantation Culture
13. The Transformation of the Delta’s Economy? Legalized Gaming, Economic Change, and the Persistence of Black Concentrated Poverty 61
14. The Transformation of Delta Plantation Politics 95
15. Building Black and Intergroup Social Capital Ties in the Delta 133
16. Lessons Learned
17. Concentrated Poverty, Political Power, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta 169
18. Notes 177
19. Questions for Political Figures and Community Activists 207
20. Questions for Community Activists and School Board Members 211
21. Questions for Former and Current Mississippi Delta Residents 213
22. Questions for Plantation Elites and Journalists 215
23. Bibliography 217
24. Index 235