Before we attended this seminar we had a list of readings that we needed to do. Here are some of the readings and books that you might be of interest to you. I copied and pasted the assignment and left it unchanged.
FIRST, READ THE NINE SHORT ESSAYS AVAILABLE ONLINE AND REVIEW THE LINKS HERE. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/551b6cffe4b04e2cba1e2b00/t/5707e8b3e32140e265aec506/1460136232399/Additional+Resources.pdf
At least ONE of the following TWO books:
Barry, John M. 1988. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. New York: Touchstone.
Daniel, Pete. 1997. Deep’n As It Come: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood. Oxford University Press.
AT LEAST ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FOUR BOOKS:
Cobb, James. 1992. The Most Southern Place on Earth: the Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ferris, William. 2009. Give My Poor Heart Ease. the University of North Carolina Press. NOTE- this book comes with a CD of original field recordings and a DVD of documentary films, at least one of which we will watch during the workshop. It’s a valuable teaching resource.
Willis, John C. 2000. Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War. Virginia: The University of Virginia Press.
Saikku, Mikko. 2005. This Delta, This Land. University of Georgia Press.
ONE OF THESE FOUR BOOKS:
Crowe, Chris. 2003. Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case. Dial Books.
Curry, Constance. 1995. Silver Rights. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company.
Asch, Chris Myers. 2008. The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer. New Press.
Lemann, Nicholas. 1991. The Promised Land: An Account of Sharecropping Families in Their Journey from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago. Pan McMillan.
AND WE ALSO RECOMMEND THESE FOR ANYONE WHO IS ESPECIALLY INTERESTED IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA:
Dattel, Gene • 2009 • Cotton and Race in the Making of America: the Human Costs of Economic Power • Ivan R. Dee, Publisher.
Faulkner, John • 1942 • Dollar Cotton • A Hill Street Classics Book.
Ferris, William • 1978 • Blues from the Delta • New York: Da Capo Press
Taulbert, Clifton • 1995 • When We Were Colored • New York: Penguin Group.
Beito and Beito • 2009 • Black Maverick • University of Illinois Press
Tyson, Timothy B • 2017 • The Blood of Emmett Till • Simon and Schuster
Wilkerson, Isabel • 2011 • The Warmth of Other Suns • Vintage Press.
