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.
