Most portraits of Mississippi's people seem to be done in black and white. Yet only a moment's reflection and observation will indicate the inadequacy of such a limited palette.
The first to populate this region were Native Americans-Choctaw, Chickasaw, Natchez, and others in even earlier periods. The predominant white Anglo-Scots-Irish population is enlivened by other European groups-colonial French and Spanish, later Yugoslavians, Italians-and the Mediterranean Greeks and Lebanese. Africans came from southern states to the east as well as through New Orleans from the Caribbean and many...
Most portraits of Mississippi's people seem to be done in black and white. Yet only a moment's reflection and observation will indicate the inadequ...
Throughout its history, Mississippi has seen a small, steady stream of immigrants, and those identities--sometimes submerged, sometimes hidden--have helped shape the state in important ways. Amid renewed interest in identity, the Mississippi Humanities Council has commissioned a companion volume to its earlier book that studied ethnicity in the state from the period 1500-1900. This new book, Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century, offers stories of immigrants overcoming obstacles, immigrants newly arrived, and long-settled groups witnessing a revitalized claim to membership....
Throughout its history, Mississippi has seen a small, steady stream of immigrants, and those identities--sometimes submerged, sometimes hidden--hav...
