Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...square miles of alluvial floodplain. Map of Mississippi Delta from Charles Wilson's "Mississippi Delta." The Yazoo-Mississippi floodplain is usually called "the Mississippi Delta" or simply "the Delta" by the region's...
Mississippi Delta
...environmental forces, the dynamics of an evolving biracial society, and the Delta's relationship to broader southern, American, and global forces. The "Mississippi Delta" is actually the delta of the Yazoo River,...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Deltans migrated to Memphis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles—anywhere offering hope for a better life. Most counties in the Delta have lost more than half of their population in the last...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...on all the wrong maps. The death threat was because Scott's father—who had brought his wife and children to the Delta in 1919—dreamed of being a black landowner instead of...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...scene. And yet New Orleans rap has remained, in important ways, marginal within the city's dominant culture: limited in venue bookings, performance opportunities, and insurance for events;6This is one of...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...night Po’ Monkey calls “Family Night,” and many people in the Delta will tell you that the weekend starts then. Guests are met at the door, either by Monkey or...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...industry. While scholars have often described immigrant recruitment in terms of a split labor market—in which workforce division augments management's labor control11Significant works in this field include Edna Bonachich, "A...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...represented and to preserve his notion of segregation. He had managed a 1924 presidential campaign, mounted major legal challenges to New Deal economic reforms, and worked behind the scenes to...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta," Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta/. As a response and challenge to these limitations, Smith constructs the food story of Mississippi by drawing on civil...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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