Ebook: Development arrested : The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Author: Gilmore Ruth Wilson, Woods Clyde Adrian
- Tags: United States -- Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission, African Americans -- Mississippi River Valley -- Economic conditions, African Americans -- Mississippi River Valley -- Politics and government, African Americans -- Mississippi River Valley -- Social conditions, African Americans -- Mississippi -- Delta (Region), Blues (Music) -- Political aspects -- Mississippi River Valley -- History, Plantation life -- Mississippi River Valley -- History, Mississippi River Valley -- Economic conditions
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Verso
- City: Mississippi--Delta Region., Array
- Language: English
- epub
"Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the 200-year-old conflict between African American workers and the planters of the Mississippi Delta. The book measures the impact of the plantation system on those who suffered its depredations firsthand, while tracing the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy debate. Despite countless defeats under the planter regime, African Read more...