Development Arrested
The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
Published on 14. March 2017
400 pages
978-1-78663-252-4 (ISBN)
Description
How could the Mississippi Delta, one of the world's most prolific cultural centres, be demolished by a predictable natural disaster? This revised edition of Clyde Woods's classic book examines disaster relief and reconstruction conflicts after Hurricane Katrina. Development Arrested also traces the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy discourse from Thomas Jefferson to George W. Bush, documenting the unceasing attacks on the gains of the Civil Rights Movement and how, despite having suffered countless defeats at the hands of the planter regime, African Americans in the Delta region have continued to push forward their agenda for social, economic and cultural justice. Woods examines the role of the blues in sustaining their efforts, surveying a musical tradition including jazz, rock and roll, soul and hiphop that has embraced a radical vision of social change.
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Edition
Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
16pp plate section
ISBN-13
978-1-78663-252-4 (9781786632524)
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Book
05/2017
2nd Edition
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Person
Clyde Woods (1957-2011) was associate professor and director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was the author of In the Wake of Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions, as well as Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is professor of geography and associate director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California.
Ruth Wilson Gilmore is professor of geography and associate director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Poem by Sterling D. Plumpp
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- 1. What Happens to a Dream Arrested?
- 2. The Blues Tradition of Explanation
- 3. The Social-Spatial Construction of the Mississippi Delta
- 4. The Shotgun Policy and the Birth of the Blues
- 5. Segregation, Peonage, and the Blues Ascension
- 6. The Enclosure Movement
- 7. The Green Revolution
- 8. Poor People and the Freedom Blues
- 9. The Crises of Tchula, Tunica, and Delta Pride
- 10. Writing the Regional Future
- 11. The Blues Reconstruction
- Postscript
- Notes
- Index
