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9%OFFRichard M. Mizelle Jr. - Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination - 9780816679263 - V9780816679263
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Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination

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Description for Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; BGH; DSB; HBJK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.

The Mississippi River flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, reshaping the social and cultural landscape as well as the physical environment. Often remembered as an event that altered flood control policy and elevated the stature of powerful politicians, Richard M. Mizelle Jr. examines the place of the flood within African American cultural memory and the profound ways it influenced migration patterns in the United States.

In Backwater Blues, Mizelle analyzes the disaster through the lenses of race and charity, blues music, and mobility and labor. The book’s title comes from Bessie Smith’s “Backwater Blues,” perhaps ... Read more

Challenging long-standing ideas of African American environmental complacency, Mizelle offers insights into the broader dynamics of human interactions with nature as well as ways in which nature is mediated through the social and political dynamics of race.Includes discography.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816679263
SKU
V9780816679263
Shipping Time
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About Richard M. Mizelle Jr.
Richard M. Mizelle Jr., is assistant professor of history at the University of Houston.

Reviews for Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination
"With this provocative study, Richard M. Mizelle Jr. gives new meaning to the 1927 Mississippi River flood. From forced displacements in relief camps to the inadequacies of Red Cross charity and the peonage labor system of the federally-funded Mississippi Flood Control Project, the Delta’s African Americans bore an unjust, debilitating burden. Mizelle’s genius lays in his use of alternative cultural ... Read more

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