Cultivating Voters: The Social Relations of Agriculture and Racial Politics in the New South

Phillip J. Wood
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Phillip J. Wood: Department of Political Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6, woodpj@post.queensu.ca

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2008, vol. 40, issue 4, 462-478

Abstract: The twentieth-century Southern racial political order is conventionally seen as a product of tenant farming and economic stagnation. This article argues that class and racial struggles in agriculture had a variety of effects, some enhancing white political advantage while others undermined it, and that these effects differed depending on the racial composition of county populations. These results shed new light on the politics of black land loss and the trajectory of southern political development.

Keywords: American South; modernization; race; class; politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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