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Economic Development and African Americans in the Mississippi Delta *
Author(s) -
Gray Phyllis A.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
rural sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.083
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1549-0831
pISSN - 0036-0112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1549-0831.1991.tb00434.x
Subject(s) - underdevelopment , delta , mississippi delta , river delta , agriculture , economic growth , race (biology) , geography , political science , socioeconomics , development economics , sociology , archaeology , economics , gender studies , engineering , geotechnical engineering , aerospace engineering
This paper presents the results of an exploratory study of African Americans and underdevelopment in the Mississippi Delta. The primary focus is on race‐specific factors and their associations with social and economic development in the Delta. Data were obtained from The Southern Growth Policy's Southern County‐Level Data Files (U.S. Department of Agriculture 1985) and a content analysis of racial conflicts in Mississippi beginning with the 1950s through the 1980s. The results of the analysis show that racial conflicts and a high concentration of poor African Americans are associated with the lack of new technology industries in Mississippi's core Delta counties.