Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers Paperback Yin and Yang Press
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Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers Paperback Yin and Yang Press

Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers

Yin and Yang Press
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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 liVietnameseng 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 of the lives of these pioneering families and the unique and valuable role they played in their communities for over a century.

Author: John Jung
Publisher: Yin and Yang Press
Published: 02/09/2008
Pages: 254
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN13: 9780615185712
ISBN10: 0615185711
BISAC Categories:
- History | General

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