Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers James Calvin Schaap and across generations

and across generations

The novel represents a work to be enjoyed by a broad segment of adult booklovers

providing a major contribution to the study of late antique society

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Chopsticks in The Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers James Calvin Schaap and across generationsThe story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their liVietnameseng with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What was their status in the segregated black and white world of that time and place? How did this small group preserve their culture and ethnic identity? "Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton"is a social