Bibliograph

Backwater blues, the Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American imagination, Richard M. Mizelle Jr

Type

Label

Backwater blues, the Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American imagination, Richard M. Mizelle Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-189), discography (pages 191-192) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Backwater blues

Nature of contents

discographiesbibliography

Oclc number

875674562

Responsibility statement

Richard M. Mizelle Jr

Sub title

the Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American imagination

Table Of Contents

Down the line: blues brilliance, displacement, and living under the shadow of levees -- Burning waters rise: Richard Wright's Blues Voice and the double environmental burden of race -- Racialized charity and the militarization of flood relief in postwar America -- Where sixteen railroads meet the sea: migration and the making of Houston's Frenchtown -- Every day seems like murder here: the Mississippi flood control project in New Deal-era America

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