Plantation Society and Race Relations

The Origins of Inequality
Herausgeber: Durant, Thomas J.; Knottnerus, J. David

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Produktbeschreibung

For more than three hundred years, the American South was essentially a plantation society, in which the plantation system penetrated all aspects of social, cultural, economic, and political life. During this period, plantation slavery evolved into the key institutional component of Southern society and played an integral role in its development. This interdisciplinary collection of essays provides a sociological framework for the interpretation of historical data on plantation slavery by addressing different questions concerning four broad areas of research-theoretical perspectives; social institutions; race, gender, and social inequality; and social change and social transformations. The contributors depict slave plantations as organized social systems that contributed significantly to the racial stratification of the Southern plantation society, and in this way served as the origin of contemporary race relations and social inequality in America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780275958084
• ISBN-10: 0275958086
• Artikelnr.: 22109103

Autorenporträt

Thomas J. Durant, J. David Knottnerus

Inhaltsangabe

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