Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers by John Jung

Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers

John Jung

222 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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The story of how a few Chinese immigrants found their way to the Mississippi River Delta in the late 1870s and earned their living with small family operated grocery stores in neighborhoods where mostly black cotton plantation workers lived. What ...

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