Backwater blues : the Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American imagination /

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'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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mizelle, Richard M., Jr., 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Temas:
1900-1999
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
Floods > Mississippi River > History > 20th century.
Disaster victims > Southern States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Inondations > Mississippi (Fleuve) > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Victimes de catastrophes > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African Americans > Migrations
African Americans > Social conditions
Floods
Race relations
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Mississippi River
Southern States
United States
History
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Sumario:'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 the point that the 1927 flood was a national event that influenced more than the 1928 Presidential Election and flood control policies. It also influenced ideas of charity, migration patterns, and labour rights activism.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781452943961
1452943966
9781452948614
1452948615

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