Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers James Calvin Schaap ISBN13: 9798477068494

ISBN13: 9798477068494

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Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers James Calvin Schaap ISBN13: 9798477068494The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their liVietnameseng with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place? How did this small group preserve their culture and ethnic identity? "Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton"is a social