Table of Contents:
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: A Place in Time
  • 1. Friendship Was Better than Money
  • 2. The Other Rural Workers: Landowning and Working for Cash
  • 3. Beyond Segregation: The Outlines of Interracial Social Relations in Rural Hancock
  • 4. The Solid South and the Permissive South
  • Photographs follow page 130
  • 5. Race, Violence, and Power in a Personal Culture
  • 6. Paternalism and Patronage: Public Power in a Personal Culture
  • Epilogue: The Rise of Public Work
  • Appendix A: MethodsAppendix B: Interviews
  • Notes
  • General Index
  • Interviewee Index