Backwater blues : the Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American imagination /
'Backwater Blues' offers a critique of long-standing ideas of African American environmental complacency by showing the ways in which black commentators from W.E.B. Du Bois to Bessie Smith provided an ecological and intellectual criticism of the 1927 flood. The author also takes seriously...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014] |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |