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xix, 233 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Palimpsest -- The dimming mystique of Mileston -- "It's going to take a Moses" -- "We thought Mississippi was safer than Arkansas" -- The past is a foreign country -- "The jewel of the Delta" -- Race, health, and poverty in a sanctuary from segregation -- "Hunger has no color line" -- Saving an opportunity desert -- A cruel and intolerable burden -- "Justice is a blind goddess" -- The wrong side of that fence -- Your blues ain't like mine -- Casino lights -- Resilience and salvation in the Delta -- A veiled mirror
"Once the powerhouse of a fledgling country's economy, the Mississippi Delta has been consigned to a narrative of destitution. It is often faulted for the sins of the South, portrayed as a regional backwater that willfully cleaved itself from the modern world. But buried beneath the weight of good ol' boy politics and white-washed histories lies the Delta's true story. Mississippi native and award-winning writer W. Ralph Eubanks travels the loamy topsoil of the Mississippi Delta, revealing a microcosm of economic oppression in the US"-- Provided by publisher
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African Americans -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region) -- History -- 19th century
White supremacy (Social structure) -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region)
Delta (Miss. : Region) -- History