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The Transformation of Plantation Politics explores the effects of black political exclusion, the sharecropping system, and white resistance on the Mississippi Delta's current economic and political situation. Sharon D. Wright Austin's extensive interviews with residents of the region shed light on the transformations and legacies of the Delta's political and economic institutions. While African Americans now hold most of the major political offices in the region and are no longer formally excluded from political participation, educational opportunities, or lucrative jobs, Wright Austin shows that white wealth and black poverty continue to be the norm partly because of the deeply entrenched legacies of the Delta's history. Contributing to a greater theoretical understanding of black political efforts, this book demonstrates a need for a strong level of black social capital, intergroup capital, financial capital, political capital, and a human capital of educated and skilled workers.

Social capital (Sociology) --- Whites --- Elite (Social sciences) --- African Americans --- Poverty --- Plantation life --- Country life --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Capital, Social (Sociology) --- Sociology --- White people --- White persons --- Caucasian race --- Social conditions. --- Political aspects --- Politics and government. --- Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Race relations. --- Black people

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"Much like John T. Edge's Southern Belly in conception but with a more focused regional scope, this book gets at the culture and foodways of the Mississippi Delta through lively descriptions of the region's restaurants, following a geographical path chapter by chapter from Memphis to Vicksburg. Introductions to each chapter as well as box features bring out historical and social context, highlighting famous deltans like Mose Allison and Jim Henson as well as interesting regional topics like "the Fighting Okra" or the annual spaghetti gravy cookoff. Puckett has included ca. 65 recipes, each with a connection to one of the restaurants or featured individuals (Memphis Barbecue Pizza, for example. as favored by Elvis.) Photographs by Langdon Clay illuminate diners, restaurant settings, streetscapes, and shots of Delta life"--

TRAVEL / United States / South / East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN). --- COOKING / Regional & Ethnic / American / Southern States. --- COOKING / History. --- Cooking, American --- Confederate cooking --- Cooking, Confederate --- Cooking, Southern (United States) --- Southern cooking (United States) --- Cooking, Louisiana --- Louisiana cooking --- Cooking, Cajun --- Cooking, Creole --- Southern style. --- Louisiana style. --- Confederate style --- Louisiana style --- Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region)

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This book is the first detailed investigation of the important archaeological site of Parchman Place in the Mississippi Delta, a defining area for understanding the Mississippian culture that spanned much of what is now the United States Southeast and Midwest before the fifteenth century.

Mississippian culture --- Indians of North America --- Antiquities. --- Delta (Miss. : Region) --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Temple Mound culture --- Mound-builders --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Antiquities --- Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Yazoo Mississippi Delta (Miss. : Region) --- Mississippian culture. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology --- Archaeological specimens --- Artefacts (Antiquities) --- Artifacts (Antiquities) --- Specimens, Archaeological --- Material culture --- Archaeology --- Mississippi --- State of Mississippi --- Missisipi --- Місісіпі --- Misisipi --- Штат Місісіпі --- Shtat Misisipi --- Мисисипи --- Щат Мисисипи --- Mísísípii Hahoodzo --- Mississippi osariik --- Μισισιπι --- Πολιτεία του Μισισίπι --- Politeia tou Misisipi --- Estado de Misisipi --- Misisipio --- État du Mississippi --- Mississippy --- 미시시피 주 --- Misisipʻi-ju --- 미시시피 --- Mikikipi --- מיסיסיפי --- מדינת מיסיסיפי --- Medinat Misisipi --- US-MS --- MS (State : Mississippi) --- MI (State : Mississippi) --- Miss.