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- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation
- 1 Families’ Cross-Century Struggles to Leave Dispossession Behind
- 2 The Sunflower County Delta
- 3 Multigenerational Injury, Insult, and Adversity
- 4 Patterns of Dispossession
- 5 Facing Promise and Peril
- 6 Position-Taking in the Nation
- Part II Family Interiority and Economic Mobility Pathways
- Part III Pathways toward Upward Economic Mobility
- Select Bibliography
- Index
2 - The Sunflower County Delta
from Part I - The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2023
- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
- Land, Promise, and Peril
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I The Family in an Intemperate Community, State, and Nation
- 1 Families’ Cross-Century Struggles to Leave Dispossession Behind
- 2 The Sunflower County Delta
- 3 Multigenerational Injury, Insult, and Adversity
- 4 Patterns of Dispossession
- 5 Facing Promise and Peril
- 6 Position-Taking in the Nation
- Part II Family Interiority and Economic Mobility Pathways
- Part III Pathways toward Upward Economic Mobility
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Born in rural Doddsville in Sunflower County, Eastland’s father, a prominent attorney, activist in the Democratic Party, and cotton planter moved his family from Sunflower County to Scott County (Forest, the county seat), in 1905, when James was just under a year old. The Eastlands traversed through both Scott and Sunflower counties during young James Eastland’s formative years. His great-grandpa, Hiram Eastland, had settled in Forest during the fifth decade of the 1800s. Senator James Oliver Eastland’s parents, Woods Eastland and Alma Austin put stakes in the ground in both Sunflower and Scott Counties. The Senator’s body was interred in February 1986 in Forest, in the segregated Eastern Cemetery. Eastland’s family and his actions as a politician intersected with and harmed the long-term prospects of his obscure black neighbors.
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- Land, Promise, and PerilRace and Stratification in the Rural South, pp. 25 - 42Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023