ISBN:
9781844675616
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1844675610
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 354 pages, 16 unnumerierte Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
Paperback edition
DDC:
305.89607307624
Keywords:
United States / Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission United States / Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission
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African Americans Economic conditions
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Mississippi River Valley
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African Americans Politics and government
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Mississippi River Valley
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African Americans Social conditions
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Mississippi River Valley
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African Americans Mississippi
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Delta (Region)
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Blues (Music) Political aspects
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History
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Mississippi River Valley
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Plantation life History
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Mississippi River Valley
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African Americans
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African Americans Economic conditions
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African Americans Politics and government
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African Americans Social conditions
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Blues (Music) Political aspects
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Economic history
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Plantation life
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Politics and government
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Race relations
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Mississippi River Valley Economic conditions
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Mississippi River Valley Race relations
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Mississippi River Valley Politics and government
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Mississippi
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Delta Region
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Mississippi River Valley
Abstract:
"Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the 200-year-old conflict between African American workers and the planters of the Mississippi Delta. The book measures the impact of the plantation system on those who suffered its depredations firsthand, while tracing the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy debate. Despite countless defeats under the planter regime, African Americans in the Delta continued to push forward their agenda for social and economic justice. Throughout this remarkably interdisciplinary book, ranging across fields as diverse as rural studies, musicology, development studies, and anthropology, Woods demonstrates the role of music--including jazz, rock and roll, soul, rap and, above all, the blues--in sustaining a radical vision of social change." --
Note:
Originally published: 1998. - Formerly CIP. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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Poem
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Introduction
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1. What Happens to a Dream Arrested?
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2. The Blues Tradition of Explanation
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3. The Social-Spatial Construction of the Mississippi Delta
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4. The Shotgun Policy and the Birth of the Blues
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5. Segregation, Peonage, and the Blues Ascension
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6. The Enclosure Movement
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7. The Green Revolution
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8. Poor People and the Freedom Blues
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9. The Crises of Tchula, Tunica, and Delta Pride
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10. Writing the Regional Future
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11. The Blues Reconstruction
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