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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mizelle, Richard M., Jr., 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Floods.
African Americans > Social conditions.
African Americans > Migrations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Victimes de catastrophes > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Inondations > Mississippi (Fleuve) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Noirs americains > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Disaster victims > Southern States > Social conditions > 20th century.
Floods > Mississippi River > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Social conditions > 20th century.
United States.
Southern States.
Mississippi River.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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 (224 pages).
ISBN:9781452943961

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