The Transformation of Plantation Politics - Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, And Social Capital in

Informationen zum Autor Sharon D. Wright Austin is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of Florida. She is the author of The Transformation of Plantation Politics: Black Politics, Concentrated Poverty, and Social Capital in the Mississippi Delta , also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext "This book not only addresses the social and economic disparities in one of America's poorest regions! but also explains why traditional methods of overcoming these disparities are not necessarily tied to redistributing money. On the contrary! the author points out vividly that the system will only begin to change when non-elites are empowered and hundreds of years of oppression and institutional racism are removed through education and reordering the political structure. This book will be the impetus for additional research and may in fact help the residents and other interested parties facilitate change in the region." -- Charles E. Menifield! coeditor of Politics in the New South: Representation of African Americans in

Product details

• Authors: Sharon D. Austin Wright, Sharon D Wright Austin, Sharon D. Wright Austin
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2006
• EAN: 9780791468012
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6801-2
• No. of pages: 247
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Suny Series in African America; Suny Series in African America
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education