| Description |
1 online resource |
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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 -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
| Summary |
'Backwater Blues' offers a critique of long-standing ideas of African American environmental complacency by showing the ways in which black commentators from W.E.B. Du Bois to Bessie Smith provided an ecological and intellectual criticism of the 1927 flood. The author also takes seriously the point that the 1927 flood was a national event that influenced more than the 1928 Presidential Election and flood control policies. It also influenced ideas of charity, migration patterns, and labour rights activism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century
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Floods -- Mississippi River -- History -- 20th century
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Disaster victims -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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African Americans -- Migrations.
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African Americans -- Social conditions.
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Floods.
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Race relations.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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Mississippi River.
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Southern States.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781452943961 |
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1452943966 |
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9781452948614 |
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1452948615 |
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