Life and death in the Delta : African American narratives of violence, resilience, and social change by Rogers, Kim Lacy

Subjects: “…African Americans Mississippi Delta (Region) Social conditions.…”
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The transformation of plantation politics : Black politics, concentrated poverty, and social capital in the Mississippi Delta / by Wright Austin, Sharon D., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The Theoretical Framework -- The Influence of Local Elites in the Mississippi Delta -- The Plantation Political and Economic Culture -- The "Cotton Obsessed, Negro Obsessed" Delta Plantation Economy -- Black Mobilization and Elite Resistance During the Height of Traditionalistic Plantation Political Rule -- The Transformation and Legacies of the Plantation Culture -- The Transformation of the Delta's Economy?…”
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Blues Musicians of the Mississippi Delta by Manheim, Steven

Table of Contents: “…Mississippi Delta Views; Bibliography…”
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Delta Jews by DeWitt, Mike

Subjects: “…Jews Mississippi Delta (Region)…”
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Panther Tract : Wild Boar Hunting in the Mississippi Delta. by Golding, Melody

Subjects: “…Wild boar hunting Mississippi Delta (Region) Anecdotes.…”
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Let the world listen right : the Mississippi Delta hip-hop story / by Neff, Ali Colleen

Table of Contents: “…-- New blues in the Mississippi Delta -- A family affair -- True blues ain't no new news -- Musical mobilities -- The undivided road.…”
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I'm feeling the blues right now : blues tourism and the Mississippi Delta / by King, Stephen A., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…The history of the Mississippi Delta blues -- The history of blues tourism in the Mississippi Delta -- Blues myths and the rhetorical imagination of place -- Blues festivals, race, and the construction of authenticity -- A blues countermemory : the history of Mississippi, the story of the Delta -- Public memory, historical amnesia, and the Shack Up Inn -- Assessing tourism goals : money, image, and reconciliation.…”
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Rebuilding housing along the Mississippi Coast : ideas for ensuring an adequate supply of affordable housing

Subjects: “…Low-income housing Government policy Mississippi Delta (Region)…”
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Delta fragments : the recollections of a sharecropper's son by Hodges, John Oliver, 1944-

Subjects: “…African Americans Mississippi Delta (Region) Biography.…”
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American Congo : the African American freedom struggle in the Delta by Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth, 1949-

Subjects: “…African Americans Civil rights Mississippi Delta (Region) History 20th century.…”
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Mining the Home Movie : Excavations in Histories and Memories

Table of Contents: “…Mule racing in the Mississippi Delta /…”
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Mining the Home Movie : Excavations in Histories and Memories

Table of Contents: “…Mule racing in the Mississippi Delta /…”
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Gulf of Mexico origin, waters, and biota. : Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management by Day, John W., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Integrated coastal management in the Mississippi Delta: system functioning as the basis of sustainable management /…”
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Defining the Delta : multidisciplinary perspectives on the Lower Mississippi River Delta

Table of Contents: “…Glass Jr. -- What is the Mississippi Delta? A historian's perspective / Jeannie M. …”
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The rising sea by Pilkey, Orrin H., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Living on the edge -- Why the sea is rising -- Predicting the unpredictable -- The 800-pound gorillas -- A sea of denial -- The living coasts -- People and the rising sea -- Ground zero : the Mississippi Delta -- Sounding retreat.…”
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During wind and rain : the Jones family farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848-2006 by Bolsterli, Margaret Jones

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The place they came to : the Arkansas/Mississippi delta -- The Uriah generation : 1849-1872 -- The Joseph generation : 1872-1906 -- The Boss and Sallie generation : 1906-1957 -- The Grover generation : 1957-1991 -- The Casey generation : 1985- -- Conclusion.…”
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During wind and rain : the Jones family farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848-2006 by Bolsterli, Margaret Jones

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The place they came to : the Arkansas/Mississippi delta -- The Uriah generation : 1849-1872 -- The Joseph generation : 1872-1906 -- The Boss and Sallie generation : 1906-1957 -- The Grover generation : 1957-1991 -- The Casey generation : 1985- -- Conclusion.…”
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Time's river : archaeological syntheses from the lower Mississippi River Valley

Table of Contents: “…Dunnell -- Absolute dating in the Mississippi Delta / James K. Feathers -- Bioarchaeology in the Mississippi Delta / S. …”
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Booker's place : a Mississippi story

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Medgar Evers : Mississippi martyr by Williams, Michael Vinson, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…"Mama called him her special child": a lineage of resistance -- The "road to Jericho": from the Mississippi Delta to Jackson, Mississippi -- The face of social change: the NAACP in Mississippi -- A bloodied and battered Mississippi: 1955 -- The black wave: conservatism meets determinism -- Riding the rails: freedom ride challenges and the Jackson movement -- Two can play the game: the gauntlet toss -- Mississippi, murder, and Medgar: our domestic killing fields.…”
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Medgar Evers : Mississippi martyr by Williams, Michael Vinson, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…"Mama called him her special child": a lineage of resistance -- The "road to Jericho": from the Mississippi Delta to Jackson, Mississippi -- The face of social change: the NAACP in Mississippi -- A bloodied and battered Mississippi: 1955 -- The black wave: conservatism meets determinism -- Riding the rails: freedom ride challenges and the Jackson movement -- Two can play the game: the gauntlet toss -- Mississippi, murder, and Medgar: our domestic killing fields.…”
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Making a living : work and environment in the United States by Montrie, Chad

Table of Contents: “…Living by Themselves: Slaves' and Freedmen's Hunting, Fishing, and Gardening in the Mississippi Delta; 3. Men Alone Cannot Settle a Country: Domesticating Nature in the Kansas-Nebraska Grasslands; 4. …”
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Exploring southeastern archaeology

Table of Contents: “…Revisiting Mounds in the Lower Mississippi Delta; PART II: THE ARCHAIC PERIOD; Chapter 4. …”
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Exploring southeastern archaeology

Table of Contents: “…Revisiting Mounds in the Lower Mississippi Delta; PART II: THE ARCHAIC PERIOD; Chapter 4. …”
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William 'Bill' Ferris interview

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Mississippi 'Food Deserts' Fuel Obesity Epidemic

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The World Don't Owe Me Nothing : the Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards. by Edwards, David Honeyboy

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Table of Contents; Chapter One: All the people flowed to the Mississippi Delta.; Chapter Two: The water overflowed her heart.; Chapter Three: I kept that guitar in my hands.; Chapter Four: Honey can play now!…”
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Blue yodel by Elkins, Ansel, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Foreword; Blues for the Death of the Sun; Goat Man; Mississippi Pastoral; The River's Wife; The Girl with Antlers; Adventures of the Double- Headed Girl; Autobiography of Eve; Winter Burial; Coffin Bone; Devil's Rope; Baby Doll; Tennessee Williams on Art and Sex; Real Housewives; Monogamy; The Lighthouse Keeper; Tornado; Aiming a Shotgun at the Sky; Hour of the Wolf; Reverse: A Lynching; Crying Wolf; Mississippi Delta: Glass in the Field; War Mask; Thou Shalt Not; The Call of the Wild; Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory; Going to the Movies Alone.…”
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A match on dry grass : community organizing as a catalyst for school reform by Warren, Mark R., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A new movement for equity and justice in education -- How community organizing works --"A match on dry grass": organizing for great schools in San Jose -- "An appetite for change": building relational cultures for educational reform and civic engagement in Los Angeles -- "Our strength is the power of our community": political education and the continuation of the struggle in Denver -- "Weaving a tapestry that won't unravel": the transformation of education in the Mississippi Delta -- "Acts of leadership": building powerful forms of parent participation in Chicago -- "Cement between the bricks": building schools and communities in New York City -- Building power and relationships to transform communities and schools -- Conclusion: Lessons for school reform and democracy building -- Appendix: A collaborative research process.…”
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Mississippi Triangle

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Love in Vain : a Vision of Robert Johnson. by Greenberg, Alan

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Mobilizing communities : asset building as a community development strategy

Table of Contents: “…Kretzmann, Deborah Puntenney -- Natural amenities and asset-based development in rural communities / Gary Paul Green -- Implementing community development in the Mississippi Delta : the effect of organizations on resident participation / Mark H. …”
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Eudora Welty's Delta wedding

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Delta wedding blues / Barbara Sylvester -- Delta wedding : an intricate design of humor and celebration / Tereza Marques de Oliveira Lima -- "The way for girls in the world" : Laura's escape from drowning in Delta wedding / Julia Eichelberger -- Cixous' new woman : Laura and Shelley in Eudora Welty's Delta wedding / Elizabeth Crews -- " ... nothing really, nothing really so very much happened" : indeterminate meaning in Eudora Welty's Delta wedding / Cecilia Donohue -- Probing the limits of the self / Imola Bülgözdi -- "The anger, the love, the pride, and rest of marriage" : women and wedlock ideology in Eudora Welty's Delta wedding / Paula Elyseu Mesquita -- Outlaws and Indians : Eudora Welty's "border" characters in Delta wedding / Mae Miller Claxton -- "Seeing things as they really are in Mississippi" : Delta wedding's anatomy of pure white womanhood / Liza Kramer -- Knowledge, power, and rhetoric in Eudora Welty's Delta wedding / Reine Dugas Bouton.…”
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American masters. Charley Pride : I'm just me

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Manners and Southern History : Machine Politics in Memphis. by Dowdy, G. Wayne

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Blues Singers : Biographies of 50 Legendary Artists of the Early 20th Century by Dicaire, David

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Standing tall : women unionize the catfish industry by Blank, Donald

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Devolution and Black state legislators : challenges and choices in the twenty-first century by King-Meadows, Tyson, 1972-

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Catfish kingdom

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Gayelle. 1988 Series 1, Programme 45.

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