The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White, Second Edition

The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White, Second Edition
ISBN-10
1478609400
ISBN-13
9781478609407
Category
Social Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
1988-01-01
Publisher
Waveland Press
Author
James W. Loewen

Description

This scholarly, carefully researched book studies one of the most overlooked minority groups in Americathe Chinese of the Mississippi Delta. During Reconstruction, white plantation owners imported Chinese sharecroppers in the hope of replacing their black laborers. In the beginning they were classed with blacks. But the Chinese soon moved into the towns and became almost without exception, owners of small groceries. Loewen details their astounding transition from black to essentially white status with an insight seldom found in studies of race relationships in the Deep South.

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