Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...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 inhabitants....
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...the Mississippi Delta and an abundance of hardwood forests and natural resources, along with a tradition of entrepreneurialism and a history of labor-intensive human productivity, supplied the means to drive...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...into the state's Francophone musical traditions, with a portable recording device in tow, began an intermittent but deeply influential engagement with Cajun and Creole music across his long career. Indeed,...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Elvis Presley. Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. The book is organized around chapters devoted to individual genres, and often a single recording artist. Comentale begins by chronicling the Mississippi Delta's industrialization...