Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta

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.

Author: Clyde Woods
Publisher: Verso
Published: 05/02/2017
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9781844675616
ISBN10: 1844675610
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | General
- Social Science | Cultural & Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Bl
- Political Science | Political Economy

About the Author
Clyde Woods (1957-2011) was an Associate Professor of Black Studies and Acting Director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His other books include Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans.