Analyzes the social organization of slave plantations and its influence on race relations and social inequality in Southern plantation society and in today's America.
Preface
Introduction
Theoretical Perspectives
The Slave Plantation Revisited: A Sociological Perspective by
Thomas J. Durant, Jr.
The Slave Plantation System from a Total Institution Perspective by
J. David Knottnerus, David L. Monk, and Edward Jones
Plantation-Style Social Control: Oppressive Social Structures in
the Slave Plantation System by Donald L. Yates
The Social Construction of Racial Meaning by Blacks and Whites in
Plantation Society by Beverly M. John
Social Institutions
The Social Influence of Plantation Religion among Anglo-American
Colonists and African Slaves by Rupe Simms
Up from the Plantation: The Survival of Rural Black Farm Families
of Northeastern Louisiana 1930-1970 by Francis Staten
"I Looked for Home Elsewhere": Black Southern Plantation Families
1790-1940 by Lenus Jack, Jr.
The Profitability of Slavery: A Review of the Classical Economic
Position by Donald R. Andrews and Ralph D. Christy
Law and Race in the Slave Plantation System by Joyce M. Plummer
Race, Gender, and Social Inequality
Plantation Slavery among Native Americans: The Creation of a Red,
White, and Black America by Thomas J. Durant, Jr. and Nicole
Moliere
Gender Roles in Slave Plantations by Julia Burkart
Status Structures and Ritualized Relations in the Slave Plantation
System by J. David Knottnerus
The Social Demography of Plantation Slavery by Ollie Gary
Christian
Social Change and Social Transformations
The Plantation Lifeworld of the Old Natchez District: 1840-1880 by
Ronald L.F. Davis
The Social Transformation of Plantation Society by Clarence R.
Talley
Plantations without Slaves: The Legacy of Louisiana Plantation
Culture by Katherine Bankole
"Gone with the Wind" Versus the Holocaust Metaphor: Louisiana
Plantation Narratives in Black and White by Jean Muteba Rahier and
Michael Hawkins
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
THOMAS J. DURANT, JR. is Professor of Sociology and Director of
African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University.
His research and teaching interests include Southern culture,
international development, and ethnic minorities. He has published
numerous journal articles and book chapters.
J. DAVID KNOTTNERUS is Professor of Sociology at Oklahoma State
University. His interests include theory, social structure and
inequality, social psychology, and group processes. He has
published extensively in journals and is the coeditor of Recent
Developments in the Theory of Social Structure (with Christopher
Prendergast, 1994).
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undergraduate, history majors. Also, historians may profitably
consult it for new approaches to microhistory or projects involving
interviews."-The Historian
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