ETHNIC HERITAGE IN MISSISSIPPI.

Carpenter, Barbara (editor). Mississippi Humanities Council. John H. Peterson, Jr.; Jay K. Johnson; Patricia Galloway; Samuel J. Wells; Clara Sue Kidwell; Charles D. Lowery; Paul E. Hoffman; Robert S. Weddle; William Cash; Robert L. Jenkins; D.C. Young; Stephen Young (contributors).

ISBN 10: 0878055789 / ISBN 13: 9780878055784

Published by Published for The Mississippi Humanities Council by The University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS and London, 1992

xii, 212 pages. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 15.25cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed with minor soiling. Slender abrasion and soiling to text block's bottom edge. Shallow crease at top corner of pages 165-166; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Preface, Acknowledgements, b/w illustrations (including frontispiece), Contributors. and Index. Features thirteen chapters among three sections - PART I. SETTING THE STAGE: THE ORIGINAL MISSISSIPPIANS. "Introduction" by John H. Peterson, Jr.; "Prehistoric Mississippi" by Jay K. Johnson; "The Emergence of Historic Indian Tribes in the Southeast" by Patricia Galloway; "Trail of Treaties: The Choctaws from the American Revolution to Removal" by Samuel J. Wells; "The Mississippi Choctaws in the Nineteenth Century" by Clara Sue Kidwell. PART II. ENCOUNTERS: NATIVE AMERICANS, EUROPEANS AFRICANS. "Introduction" by Charles D. Lowery; "The European Background in the Late Fifteenth Century" by Paul E. Hoffman; "European Interest in the Gulf Coast, 1500- 1699" by Robert S. Weddle; "European Colonization of Mississippi" by William Cash; "Africans in Colonial and Territorial Mississippi" by Robert L. Jenkins. PART III. THE CONTEMPORARY ETHNIC SCENE: A PHOTO ESSAY. "Ethnic Mississippi 1992" by D.C. Young and Stephen Young. {MS-Shelf#2|CMS-00700}. Seller Inventory # CMS-00700

Synopsis:

Most portraits of Mississippi's people seem to be done in black and white. Yet only a moment's reflection and observation will indicate the inadequacy of such a limited palette.
The first to populate this region were American Indians - Choctaw, Chickasaw, Natchez, and others in even earlier periods. The predominant white Anglo-Scots-Irish population is enlivened by other European groups - colonial French and Spanish, later Yugoslavians, Italians - and the Mediterranean Greeks and Lebanese. Africans came from southern states to the east as well as through New Orleans from the Caribbean and many parts of Africa. The Chinese came to the Delta during Reconstruction, and more recently increasing numbers of Vietnamese have found their way to the Gulf Coast. Both groups from the Orient have prospered, as has a growing population of immigrants from India. A second influx of Hispanics from Cuba and other parts of Latin America has enriched the mixture.
This study, published in association with the Mississippi Humanities Council, seeks to provide current scholarly approaches to an often neglected segment of Mississippi, dispelling the simplistic black-and-white myth and demonstrating the historic and pervasive influence of diverse ethnic groups on Mississippi culture in the twentieth century. Beginning with archeological knowledge of the original inhabitants and moving through history to the arrival of Europeans, Africans, and eventually Asians, the contributors to this volume chart the encounters and exchanges of every kind among these disparate peoples.
The dominant theme throughout the essays is that of encounter - violent or friendly - followed by adjustment and adaptation. Issues of acculturation versus maintenance of separate cultural identity, the "melting pot" or the "tossed salad," continue to concern Mississippi's citizens and reflect in the microcosm of this Deep South state a problem that may be the largest one facing this country in the next century.

From the Back Cover: With essays by John H. Peterson, Jr., Jay K. Johnson, Patricia Galloway, Samuel J. Wells, Clara Sue Kidwell, Charles D. Lowery, Paul E. Hoffman, Robert S. Weddle, William Cash, Robert L. Jenkins, D. C. Young, and Stephen Young.

Bibliographic Details

Title: ETHNIC HERITAGE IN MISSISSIPPI.
Publisher: Published for The Mississippi Humanities Council by The University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, MS and London
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket