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Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton
by John Jung
www.goodreads.com/story/show/12302.Chopsticks_in_the_Land_of_Cotton
genre: History
The story of how Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1800s and earned their living operating small family grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that region? How did this small group maintain their culture and ethnic identity? What has happened to these merchants and their families over the years?
by John Jung
www.goodreads.com/story/show/12302.Chopsticks_in_the_Land_of_Cotton
genre: History
The story of how Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1800s and earned their living operating small family grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that region? How did this small group maintain their culture and ethnic identity? What has happened to these merchants and their families over the years?