Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers
...  engagingly written study  of the Chinese grocery stores in the Mississippi River Delta from their post-Civil War Reconstruction era beginnings to the present. .. demonstrates how these sojourners from the Guangdong province found their niche in a unique and challengingly complex social setting...  Mel Brown,  Chinese Heart of Texas,.... anchored in a creative mix of oral history, community historical documents and public records, and includes a generous fill of photos. As a study of the complexities of triangular race relations in the Jim Crow South, his work rivals James Loewen's classic study, The Mississippi Chinese.  Greg Robinson, Prof. of History, Universite de Quebec... traces the paths of Chinese immigrants in Mississippi as they moved from laborers to become successful grocery store merchants for decades with family members and relatives serving as the backbone....pays tribute to the resilience and "can-do" attitude of these  entrepreneurs. Sylvia Sun Minnick, Sam Fow,The San Joaquin Chinese Legacy