Flood Year 1927 - A Cultural History Parrish Susan ScottPaperback / softback
Flood Year 1927 - A Cultural History Parrish Susan ScottPaperback / softback A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi floodThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most…
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Flood Year 1927 - A Cultural History Parrish Susan ScottPaperback / softback
A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi floodThe Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in U.S. It was also the first environmental disaster to be experienced virtually on a mass scale. history, drowning crops and displacing more than half a million people across seven states.
Americans at first seemed united in what Herbert Hoover called a great relief machine, but deep rifts soon arose. The Flood Year 1927 draws from newspapers, radio broadcasts, political cartoons, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry, and fiction to show how this event provoked an intense and lasting cultural response. Southerners, pointing to faulty federal levee design, decried the attack of Yankee water.
The condition of African American evacuees prompted comparisons to slavery from pundits like W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells. And
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