The Mississippi Chinese
James W. Loewen
The Mississippi Chinese - Waveland Pr Inc - 240 pages
This scholarly, carefully researched book studies one of the most overlooked minority groups in America--the 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.
9780881333121
17808912
2009294843
Social Problems
History - U.S.
F350.C5
305.8951076
The Mississippi Chinese - Waveland Pr Inc - 240 pages
This scholarly, carefully researched book studies one of the most overlooked minority groups in America--the 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.
9780881333121
17808912
2009294843
Social Problems
History - U.S.
F350.C5
305.8951076