Delta fragments
Subtitle: the recollections of a sharecropper's son
By: John Oliver Hodges
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781572335707
Subjects: Social conditions; African Americans; Childhood and youth; Biography
Description: "The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and '60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor. Delta Fragments is Hodges's autobiographical journey back to the land of his birth. Brimming with vivid memories of family life, childhood friendships, the quest for knowledge, and the often brutal injustices of the Jim Crow South, it also offers an insightful meditation on the present state of race relations in America."--page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.