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Backwater blues : the Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American imagination /
'Backwater Blues' offers a critique of long-standing ideas of African American environmental complacency by showing the ways in which black commentators from W.E.B. Du Bois to Bessie Smith provided an ecological and intellectual criticism of the 1927 flood. The author also takes seriously...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: John Lee Hooker's Blues
- 1 Down the Line: Blues Brilliance, Displacement, and Living under the Shadow of Levees
- 2 Burning Waters Rise: Richard Wright's Blues Voice and the Double Environmental Burden of Race
- 3 Racialized Charity and the Militarization of Flood Relief in Postwar America
- 4 Where Sixteen Railroads Meet the Sea: Migration and the Making of Houston's Frenchtown
- 5 Every Day Seems Like Murder Here: The Mississippi Flood Control Project in New Deal-Era America
- Conclusion: When the Levee Breaks
- Notes
- Selected Discography
- Index
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