Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta
May 2017 · Verso Books
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Explore the riveting history of the 200-year-old conflict between the planter elite and African Americans of the Mississippi River Delta.
“A stunning and fresh analysis of the political economy of white supremacy and the redemptive power of the blues.” —Darlene Clark Hine, co-author of The African American Odyssey
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of centuries-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 to push forward their agenda for social and economic justice.
Throughout this remarkably interdisciplinary book, ranging across fields as diverse as rural studies, musicology, development studies, and anthropology, Woods demonstrates the role of music—including jazz, rock and roll, soul, rap and, above all, the blues—in sustaining a radical vision of social change.
“A stunning and fresh analysis of the political economy of white supremacy and the redemptive power of the blues.” —Darlene Clark Hine, co-author of The African American Odyssey
Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of centuries-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 to push forward their agenda for social and economic justice.
Throughout this remarkably interdisciplinary book, ranging across fields as diverse as rural studies, musicology, development studies, and anthropology, Woods demonstrates the role of music—including jazz, rock and roll, soul, rap and, above all, the blues—in sustaining a radical vision of social change.
Explore the riveting history of the 200-year-old conflict between the planter elite and African Americans of the Mississippi River Delta.
“A stunning and fresh analysis of the political economy of white supremacy and the redemptive power of the blues.” —Darlene Clark Hine, co-author of The Afric...
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Clyde Woods (1957–2011) was an Associate Professor of Black Studies and Acting Director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His other books include Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans.
Clyde Woods (1957–2011) was an Associate Professor of Black Studies and Acting Director of the Center for Black Studies Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His other books include Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations in Post-Katrina New Orleans.
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