Title: Ethnic heritage in Mississippi, the twentieth century /
Authors: Walton, Shana, 1961-; Carpenter, Barbara.; Mississippi Humanities Council.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi and Mississippi Humanities Council,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Minorities Mississippi History; Mississippi Race relations History; Mississippi Ethnic relations History
Contents: Machine generated contents note: SECTION I Immigrants, Identity, and Sites of Connection -- 1. The International Immigrants of Mississippi: An Overview / Carl L. Bankston III -- 2. European Mississippians / Celeste Ray -- 3. African American Sacred and Secular Identities in Mississippi's Piney Woods / Joyce Marie Jackson -- 4. The Story of Mound Bayou / Milburn J. Crowe -- 5. Down Around Biloxi: An Overview of Ethnic and Occupational Identity in a Coastal Town / Aimee L. Schmidt -- SECTION II Ethnicity in a Biracial Culture -- 6. Mississippi Delta Chinese / Frieda Quon -- 7. Mississippi Mahjar: The Lebanese Immigration Experience in the Delta / James Thomas -- 8. Chai Cotton: Jewish Life in Mississippi / Stuart Rockoff -- 9."Chahta Siyah Okih": Ethnicity in the Oral Tradition of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians / Tom Mould -- SECTION III Local Changes, Global Forces -- 10. The Vietnamese in Mississippi / Vy Thuc Dao -- 11. The Changing Face of Hindu Identity in Jackson, Mississippi / Lola Williamson -- 12. Filipinas in the Deep South: Reading Domestic Oral Narratives as Sites of Politicization and Community Building / Linda Pierce Allen -- 13. The Genesis of a New Ethnic Group?: The Meanings of Latino/Hispanic Identity in South Mississippi / Bridget Anne Hayden.