Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers
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The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their living with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place? How did this small group preserve their culture and ethnic identity? "Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton"is a social history...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0615185711
ISBN13:9780615185712
Release Date:August 2011
Publisher:Yin and Yang Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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