Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-293) and index.
Contents
Introduction: A Place in Time -- "Friendship Was Better Than Money" -- The Other Rural Workers: Landowning and Working for Cash -- Beyond Segregation: The Outline of Interracial Social Relations in Rural Hancock -- The Solid South and the Permissive South -- Race, Violence, and Power in a Personal Culture -- Paternalism and Patronage: Public Power in a Personal Culture -- Epilogue: The Rise of Public Work.