Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity - Series page

pp iii-iv

Land, Promise, and Peril - Title page

pp v-v

Copyright page

pp vi-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Figures

pp ix-x

Tables

pp xi-xii

Preface

pp xiii-xiv

Acknowledgments

pp xv-xviii

Part I - The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation

pp 1-148

1 - Families’ Cross-Century Struggles to Leave Dispossession Behind

pp 3-24

2 - The Sunflower County Delta

pp 25-42

3 - Multigenerational Injury, Insult, and Adversity

pp 43-61

4 - Patterns of Dispossession

pp 62-90

5 - Facing Promise and Peril

pp 91-105

6 - Position-Taking in the Nation

pp 106-148

Part II - Family Interiority and Economic Mobility Pathways

pp 149-250

7 - Perennial Sharecroppers

pp 151-168

8 - Quasi-Croppers and Family Interiority

pp 169-185

9 - The Mule-Renter’s Son

pp 186-193

10 - The Byrd Farmers

pp 194-210

11 - Contemporaries of the Second Sunflower Generation

pp 211-221

12 - Central Hills Family and Place in Struggle

pp 222-250

Part III - Pathways toward Upward Economic Mobility

pp 251-388

13 - Beyond Caste in Higher Education

pp 253-292

14 - The War on Poverty and the Poor in Sunflower

pp 293-323

15 - What the Research Tells Us

pp 324-366

16 - Insights and a Valedictory

pp 367-384

Epilogue

pp 385-388

Select Bibliography

pp 389-396