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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786898303321
• Autore: Mizelle Jr Richard M
• 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
• 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