Mississippi's Mess

Political Inequality, Stratification Economics, and Inadequate Economic Development

AvMarvin Porter King

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Mississippi’s Mess: Political Inequality, Stratification Economics, and Inadequate Economic Development challenges readers to question the status quo of economic development and the foundation of inequality that economic development efforts are built upon. Marvin King suggests we give economic development efforts too much credit because we do not view economic development holistically. We must place economic development efforts within the full context of state political and economic systems. King recognizes that economic inequality does not exist in a vacuum as the manifestation of generations of political inequality is economic inequality. In Mississippi's case, the state’s political and economic system rests on a foundation of discrimination and inequality.Mississippi’s Mess answers why economic development efforts fail to meaningfully change the economic status quo for millions of Black people. This failure to change the status quo is due to the state’s devotion to neoliberal economic principles favoring hostility to workers, lower taxes, and less government regulation. King’s analysis is based on his use of Stratification Economics, which stresses how power imbalances lead to inequality. Using Mississippi as a case study, Marvin King explains how economic development organized under neoliberal principles inevitably leads to stratified economic outcomes.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-12
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Race, Representation, and American Political Institutions
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781666966862

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Marvin King is associate professor of political science and African American studies at the University of Mississippi with 20 years of teaching experience in African American politics, politics of the American South, and American federalism at the University of Mississippi.

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IntroductionBook OutlineChapter 1 - Black Political InequalityThe ConstitutionThree-Fifths ClauseSlave TradeaFugitive Slave ClauseDred ScottWhy Civil WarCivil War AmendmentsReconstructionJim CrowVotingConclusionChapter 2 - Political Inequality in MississippiMississippi Politics After the Civil WarMississippi’s ConstitutionDeportation and ViolenceRace MassacresMississippi RacismResistance to Integration - Higher EducationConclusionChapter 3 - Black-White Mississippi PartisanshipBlack Voters as Democratic PartisansRealignment in MississippiConclusionChapter 4 - Historic Black Economic InequalityStratified Economic InequalityProfitability of SlaveryLand LossHousingLabor LegislationOrganized LaborConclusionChapter 5 - Contemporary Black Economic InequalityLabor Force ParticipationEducationIncarceration and the Labor ForceHealthTax InequalityIncome InequalityWealth InequalityConclusionChapter 6 - Neoliberalism and Economic DevelopmentNeoliberalismKeynesianismA Shift Away From KeynesianismConclusionChapter 7 - Economic Development in MississippiBlack-White Economic Bifurcation in 1960s-2020s MississippiMississippi’s Economy in Relative PerspectiveEconomic Outcomes in MississippiOrganized Economic Development in MississippiNeoliberalism in Mississippi’s Economic DevelopmentConclusionChapter 8 - Political Responsiveness in MississippiSystemic RacismResponsiveness ResearchLegislative Non-Responsiveness in MississippiPolicy ResponsivenessPunishing JacksonConclusionChapter 9 - Fixing Economic Development in MississippiA New Philosophical ApproachSolutionsConclusionAfterwordReferencesAbout the Author