Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi : The Twentieth Century /

Throughout its history, Mississippi has seen a small, steady stream of immigrants, and those identities--sometimes submerged, sometimes hidden--have helped shape the state in important ways. Amid renewed interest in identity, the Mississippi Humanities Council has commissioned a companion volume to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Mississippi Humanities Council
Otros Autores: Carpenter, Barbara, Walton, Shana, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi and Mississippi Humanities Council, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Race relations.
Minorities.
Ethnic relations.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Minorities > Mississippi > History > 20th century.
Mississippi.
Mississippi > Relations interethniques > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mississippi > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Mississippi > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century.
Mississippi > Race relations > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction. Ethnicity in Mississippi: Stories Worth Telling; SECTION I: Immigrants, Identity, and Sites of Connection; 1. The International Immigrants of Mississippi: An Overview; 2. European Mississippians; 3. African American Sacred and Secular Identities in Mississippi's Piney Woods; 4. The Story of Mound Bayou; 5. Down Around Biloxi: An Overview of Ethnic and Occupational Identity in a Coastal Town; SECTION II: Ethnicity in a Biracial Culture; 6. Mississippi Delta Chinese; 7. Mississippi Mahjar: The Lebanese Immigration Experience in the Delta.
  • 8. Chai Cotton: Jewish Life in Mississippi9. "Chahta Siyah Ókih": Ethnicity in the Oral Tradition of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians; SECTION III: Local Changes, Global Forces; 10. The Vietnamese in Mississippi; 11. The Changing Face of Hindu Identity in Jackson, Mississippi; 12. Filipinas in the Deep South: Reading Domestic Oral Narratives as Sites of Politicization and Community Building; 13. The Genesis of a New Ethnic Group?: The Meanings of Latino/Hispanic Identity in South Mississippi; Postscript. Celebrating Heritage and Recognizing Complexity and Change in Mississippi Culture.
  • ContributorsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

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