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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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.
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505 0 |a 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. 
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