Plantation societies, race relations, and the South : the regimentation of populations : selected papers of Edgar T. Thompson.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Edgar T. (Edgar Tristram), 1900-1989
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham, N. C. : Duke University Press, 1975.
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Table of Contents:
  • The plantation: background and definition
  • Mines and plantations and the movements of peoples
  • Comparative education in colonial areas, with special reference to plantation and mission frontiers
  • The climatic theory of the plantation
  • The plantation: the physical basis of traditional race relations
  • The plantation as a race-making situation
  • Language and race relations
  • The idea of race and the race problem
  • Race in the modern world
  • School desegregation
  • The "little races."--Sociology and sociological research in the South
  • The planter in the pattern of race relations in the South
  • The natural history of agricultural labor in the South
  • Purpose and tradition in Southern rural society
  • The South and the second emancipation
  • The South in old and new contexts
  • God and the Southern plantation system.