Delta Fragments : The Recollections of a Sharecropper's Son /

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The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and '60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. Both poignant and thought provo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hodges, John Oliver, 1944-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hodges, John Oliver, > 1944-
Hodges, John Oliver, > 1944- > Childhood and youth.
Social conditions.
African Americans.
Noirs americains > Mississippi > Delta, Region du > Biographies.
African Americans > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Biography.
Mississippi > Delta (Region)
Delta, Region du (Mississ.) > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Delta, Region du (Mississ.) > Biographies.
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Delta (Miss. : Region) > Biography.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and '60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. Both poignant and thought provoking, Delta Fragments is Hodges's autobiographical journey back to the land of his birth. Brimming with vivid memories of family life, childhood friendships, the quest for knowledge, and the often brutal injustices of the Jim Crow South, it also offers an insightful meditation on the present state.
Physical Description:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9781621900337

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