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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465846403321

Autore

Mizelle Jr Richard M

Titolo

Backwater Blues [[electronic resource] ] : The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014

ISBN

1-4529-4396-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

305.896

305.8960730750904

Soggetti

African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century

African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century

Disaster victims -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century

Floods -- Mississippi River -- History -- 20th century

United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

African Americans - Social conditions - 20th century - Mississippi River

African Americans - Migrations - History - 20th century - Southern States

Floods - History - 20th century

Disaster victims - Social conditions - 20th Century

Gender & Ethnic Studies

Social Sciences

Ethnic & Race Studies

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: John Lee Hooker's Blues; 1 Down the Line: Blues Brilliance, Displacement, and Living under the Shadow of Levees; 2 Burning Waters Rise: Richard Wright's Blues Voice and the Double Environmental Burden of Race; 3 Racialized Charity and the Militarization of Flood Relief in Postwar America; 4 Where Sixteen Railroads Meet the Sea: Migration and the Making of Houston's Frenchtown; 5 Every Day Seems Like Murder Here: The



Mississippi Flood Control Project in New Deal-Era America; Conclusion: When the Levee Breaks; Notes; Selected Discography; Index; A

BC; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

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 c