Development Arrested : The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
by
Clyde Woods
Book Details
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1844675610
ISBN-13
9781844675616
Publisher
Verso Books
Imprint
Verso Books
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 2nd, 2017
Print length
400 Pages
Weight
590 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 23.40 x 3.00 cms
Ksh 5,000.00
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How could the Mississippi Delta be demolished by a predictable natural disaster? This book examines disaster relief and reconstruction conflicts after Hurricane Katrina. It also traces the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy discourse from Thomas Jefferson to George W Bush.
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.
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.
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