Development arrested : from the plantation era to the Katrina crisis
Woods, Clyde Adrian2007
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Woods examines planter domination of politics and economy and the resistance of the African American working class to the system's depredations, tracing the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy discourse. A new edition of a classic history of the Mississippi River Delta 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.
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Imprint:
London : Verso, 2007.
Collation:
352 p.
Notes:
Originally published: 1998.
ISBN:
9781844675616 (pbk)
Dewey class:
976.33
LC class:
F351
Language:
English
Subject:
Plantation life -- Louisiana -- Mississippi River Delta -- HistoryPlantation owners -- Louisiana -- Mississippi River Delta -- AttitudesPlantations -- Political aspects -- Louisiana -- Mississippi River Delta -- HistoryAfrican American civil rights workers -- Louisiana -- Mississippi River DeltaMusic, Influence of -- Louisiana -- Mississippi River DeltaMississippi River Delta (La.) -- Social conditionsHistory
BRN:
1922376