◦ ◦ The Mississippi Chinese by James Loewen www.amazon.com/Mississippi-Chinese-Between-Black-Second/dp/0881333123/ref=pd_sim_b_1
This scholarly book studies the Chinese of the Mississippi Delta. During Reconstruction, white plantation owners imported Chinese sharecroppers in the hope of replacing their black laborers. In the beginning they were classed with blacks. But the Chinese soon moved into the towns and became, almost without exception, owners of small groceries. Posted January 12, 2011 at 8:16 AM
◦ ◦ Lotus Among the Magnoliaswww.amazon.com/Lotus-among-Mag... (more)
A Chinese scholar who lived among the Delta Chinese wrote this ethnography showing how the Chinese, initially classified as "colored," came to be viewed as a people with a separate identity. It shows how they expanded their social and economic standing running small grocery stores through out the Delta. Posted January 12, 2011 at 8:14 AM
◦ ◦ Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton https://www.amazon.com/Chopsti... (more)
A social history of the Delta Chinese and their lives in operating their small grocery stores that were often located in black neighborhoods close to the cotton pickers who were their primary customers when they first opened in the early part of the last century/ Posted January 11, 2011 at 9:00 AM
◦ ◦ Struggle for Identity in the Southern Most Place mississippideltachinese.webs.com/Struggle%20Thornell%20paper.pdf
History of the Delta Chinese in Mississippi by John Thornell, 2004 Posted June 24, 2012 at 12:05 AM
◦ ◦ Delta Chinese Hang On To Vanishing Way of Life www.nytimes.com/2000/11/01/us/cleveland-journal-delta-chinese-hang-on-to-vanishing-way-of-life.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
A newspaper article published in the Delta in 2000 commenting on the historic role of the Delta Chinese groceries and their gradual disappearance over time. Posted January 31, 2011 at 9:32 AM
◦ ◦ Somewhere Between White and Black: The Chinese in Mississippi https://academic.oup.com/maghis/article-abstract/10/4/33/1018152?redirectedFrom=fulltext Historical analysis by Vivian Wu Wong (1996) of the 'place' that Chinese occupied in a black and white society in the Delta Posted March 12, 2011 at 5:13 PM
◦ ◦ Whites in the Land of the Blues mississippidelta.com/race_miss/race_frame_pg.html
Prof. Jane Adams and D. Horton discuss race issues in the Delta from the perspective of different groups including Chinese Hoover and Freda Lee from Louise, Ms. ( To see the video interview, go to the link below this one) Posted January 16, 2011 at 11:34 AM
◦ ◦ Mississippi Delta Chinese Heritage Museum https://chineseheritagemuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/MDCHM.pdf
Newsletter from 2019 for museum created in 2012 at Delta State University to preserve the history of Delta Chinese. Posted October 23, 2012 at 9:15 PM
◦ ◦ Some Memories of Growing Up in A Grocery Store mississippimoments.org/msm-413-dr-john-p-quon-the-run-of-the-town
John Quon oral history excerpt about growing up in a grocery store in Moorhead, MS. Posted November 10, 2014 at 7:16 PM
◦ ◦ A Traditional Chinese wedding in the Delta mississippimoments.org/ms-mo-414-dr-john-p-quon-a-traditional-chinese-wedding
John Quon describes some of the customs and traditions associated with a traditional Chinese wedding using the ceremony for his marriage to Frieda Seu as an illustration. Posted November 10, 2014 at 7:20 PM
◦ ◦ Growing up in Mississippi in the '40s - '60s www.mississippifolklife.org/articles/the-education-of-bobby-joe-moon
Growing up in a Chinese grocery in the Jim Crow Mississippi Delta as seen in the life experiences of Bobby Joe Moon Posted January 12, 2011 at 3:24 PM
◦ ◦ Recognition for Willie Yung, Chinese Grocer mdah.state.ms.us/arrec/digital_archives/musgrove/pdfs/365.pdf
In 2002, the Governor of Mississippi issued a proclamation to honor a Chinese grocer, Willie Yung, of Rena Lara, for his outstanding contributions as a businessman to his community for 37 years. Posted January 13, 2011 at 12:21 PM
◦ ◦ Arkansas Chinese Grocers www.rexnelsonsouthernfried.com/?p=1904 A warm reflection about the earlier Chinese grocers on the Arkansas side of the river by an Arkansas News journalist, Rex Nelson. (Scroll down after reading it to view comments from readers) Posted January 20, 2011 at 2:01 PM
◦ ◦ "Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton" mississippideltachinese.webs.com/Chopsticks%20in%20the%20Delta.html Background of events that led me to the writing of this account of the lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese grocers and their families. Posted February 15, 2011 at 8:54 AM
◦ ◦ Luck Wing of Jonestown, MS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuCm7kaiWYU&feature=related
A 2010 video with Luck Wing describing his father's grocery store in Jonestown, Ms., and what life was like growing up in the Delta for Chinese families back around the 1940s. Posted February 5, 2011 at 9:14 AM
◦ ◦ Frieda Quon of Greenville, MS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN2eDUy6DAM&NR=1
Video interview in 2010 of Frieda Quon describing her father's grocery store in Greenville and discussing family life, schooling, and church participation for Chinese in the 1940s. Posted February 5, 2011 at 9:19 AM
◦ ◦ Raymond Wong, Greenville, MS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXbGy5xqj_I&feature=related
Video in 2010 with Raymond Wong discussing his father's grocery store in Greenville, MS. as well as how they left that business for safety reasons during the turbulent civil rights activism days to open a Chinese restaurant, How Joy, that operated until recently. Posted February 5, 2011 at 9:24 AM