When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi delta, they found a closed society in which race relations had not altered significantly since Reconstruction. Much has changed, however, in Mississippi in the past three decades, as Frederick Wirt demonstrates in ""We Ain't What We Was,"" a remarkable look inside the New South. In this follow-up to his highly praised 1970 study of Panola County, "The Politics of Southern Equality," Wirt shows how the implementation of civil rights law over the past quarter-century has altered racial reality that...
When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi delta, they found a closed society in which race rel...
When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi delta, they found a closed society in which race relations had not altered significantly since Reconstruction. Much has changed, however, in Mississippi in the past three decades, as Frederick Wirt demonstrates in ""We Ain't What We Was,"" a remarkable look inside the New South. In this follow-up to his highly praised 1970 study of Panola County, "The Politics of Southern Equality," Wirt shows how the implementation of civil rights law over the past quarter-century has altered racial reality that...
When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi delta, they found a closed society in which race rel...
This path-breaking text deals with the effects of federal civil rights legislation on the behavior and attitudes of the inhabitants of a single county in Mississippi--Panola County. These effects are examined in the three civil rights areas of voting, education, and economic opportunities. By using this smaller example, Frederick M. Wirt's broader interest is to show how legislation can be used to effect social change on a large scale.
The need to substitute empirical knowledge for abstract speculation motivates Wirt's study. Wirt restricts his study to one county but with...
This path-breaking text deals with the effects of federal civil rights legislation on the behavior and attitudes of the inhabitants of a single cou...
