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100	1		_aJames W. Loewen
245	1		_aThe Mississippi Chinese
260			_bWaveland Pr Inc
300			_a240 pages
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aSocial Problems
650			_aHistory - U.S.
999			_c479 _d479