Mississippi River Delta Chinese

[helen]

The Mississippi River Delta, stretching for about 100 miles along the banks of the mighty Mississippi, and extending for about 50 miles from the Arkansas side eastward across the state of Mississippi is one of the richest agricultural regions anywhere. Fortunes were made on cotton plantations where slave labor was employed for decades until they were freed by Lincoln on Jan. 1, 1863. mississippideltachinese.webs.com/

[laohuaqiao]

A documentary exploring the ethnic relations in that region, entitled "Mississippi Triangle", was made by well-known Chinese American filmmaker Christine Choy and others, nearly 30 years ago.

[eting]

A book
Lotus among the magnolias Robert Seito Quan was recently published about this group.

Two previous US Books were:
The Mississipi Chinese: Beteen Black and White, James Lowen
Chopsticks in the land of cotton John Jung

During the long period when Chinese emmigration was restricted, this was the third largest population of chinese in the US.

[Doug 周]

eting,

Welcome to the Forum,

Do you want to write a few sentences of your review of these three books in the Chinese Roots Wiki on literature~click . Any review style is fine and if you need help with the Wiki format, please email me by clicking under my avatar on the left.

For those who want other reviews, <select><copy><paste> the titles into Amazon and get a brief idea of what is inside the book.

Sincerely,
Doug

[baksha]

LUCY M. COHEN, CHINESE IN THE POST-CIVIL WAR SOUTH: PEOPLE WITHOUT A HISTORY (1984) is academic researched and one of the best book on the topic.

baksha