The Mississippi Delta Chinese are a small community of Chinese Americans that has lived in the Mississippi Delta region since the late 19th century. A related population of Chinese Americans lives across the Mississippi River in the Arkansas Delta and the nearby city of Memphis, Tennessee.
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The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White is a non-fiction book by James W. Loewen, published by Harvard University Press in 1971.
The Mississippi Delta, for a long time, has been a multiracial land where both black and white people lived. However, this is not to say that different races ...
Mar 18, 2017 · Chinese immigrants came to the Mississippi Delta as agricultural laborers. Many moved on to become grocers in African-American neighborhoods ...
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Sep 5, 2017 · Chinese immigrants first arrived in the Mississippi Delta after the end of slavery, responding to cotton planters' need for a newly exploitable ...
Aug 5, 2020 · The Untold Story Of America's Southern Chinese (2017) - There's a rather unknown community of Chinese-Americans who've lived in the Mississippi ...
Documentary film and book that tells the story of the early Chinese immigrants to the Mississippi Delta during the 19th century and the steady growth of ...
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Over the centuries American Indians, French, Arab, Spanish, African, German, English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Jewish, Italian, Chinese, Mexican, and Southeast Asian ...
The history of Chinese in the Mississippi Delta is unique within a diverse fabric of ethnicities in this region. To tell one part of the story, one must ...
Nov 11, 2017 · Our waitress was an ethnic Chinese woman with a thick New Orleans drawl who called us all “darling” and “honey-child.” That took us by surprise!