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Series
DARG regional development volume no. 6
Publisher
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the 200-year-old conflict between African American workers and the planters of the Mississippi Delta. The book measures the impact of the plantation system on those who suffered its depredations firsthand, while tracing the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy debate. Despite countless defeats under the planter regime, African Americans in the Delta continued...