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Published in final edited form as: Health Educ Behav. 2010 Dec 17;38(1):80–90. doi: 10.1177/1090198110376349

Table 2.

The state of assets in Pemiscot County, Missouri

Form of capital	Definition	Explanation of state	Example quote
Financial	Cash, savings, liquid assets	People are not making money	Because people aren’t making money.
Financial	Cash, savings, liquid assets	Limited access to external funding (e.g., loans, grants, scholarships)	You could have money in that bank and still not get a loan. In Pemiscot County you don’t get a scholarship unless you’re a good football player or you an alright basketball player you might go to SEMO.
Human	Knowledge, skills and abilities	Children do not have the basic skills they need to succeed	Can’t read, can’t write. Let me put that in there. Once they graduate they do not know how to read or write. It is not something that I’ve heard, it is something that I’ve seen.
Market	Business and business development	Loss of downtown businesses	I remember as a little girl there were all kinds of stores downtown, you know, that we went to even though when I was a little girl black people had to go in a certain door and be in a certain part of the store but we still got a chance to go in. You know. That’s, that’s my memory.
Market	Business and business development	Loss of African American businesses	P1: We used to have from Bess, Twelfth street back to what they call Fifteenth street now, back to Franklin, we used to have black businesses. P2: Lucrative black businesses.
Natural	Land, water, air quality, biodiversity	Limited access to land	This factory that went to Blytheville that wanted to come here, they wouldn’t sell them no land.
Natural	Land, water, air quality, biodiversity	River underutilized	It has potential. I don’t think our river ways have been used to their fullest potential when it comes to distribution, so. We know that it’s an asset but I think it’s under utilized.
Physical	Manmade, physical infrastructures	Buildings are in poor condition	These other buildings are in such bad shape. I know the old movie theater, it has asbestos. It is time to tear that spot down.
Physical	Manmade, physical infrastructures	No public transportation and access to personal transportation is limited	As far as roads, as far as transportation, I always said you can walk anywhere in Pemiscot County. A car ride any where is but five minutes and that’s pretty much the same in Hayti. A lot of these guys like you said don’t have transportation.
Social	Relationships built on trust and reciprocity	People are not coming together	We had neighborhood parents. They might not have been related to you but they knew your parents. They knew you. They watched you. If they saw you off somewhere doing something they could correct you and took you home. Most of the people they don’t come together. I had worked in the community all my jobs.
Social	Relationships built on trust and reciprocity	Hope that if people come together things can change	If we get together as a community, we start voting, we find somebody that’s not just for the hierarchy of Pemiscot County. We find somebody that’s for everybody, Pemiscot County as a whole, and vote them in, then maybe we see some changes.