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Catfish Dream - Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (Hardcover)
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Catfish Dream - Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta (Hardcover)
Series: Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and Place Series
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Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles
of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the
Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of
a catfish plant in the nation. Both directly and indirectly, the
economic and political realities of food and subsistence affect the
everyday lives of Delta farmers and the people there. Ed's own
father, Edward Sr., was a former sharecropper turned landowner who
was one of the first black men to grow rice in the state. Ed
carries this mantle forth with his soybean and rice farming and
later with his catfish operation, which fed the black community
both physically and symbolically. He provides an example for
economic mobility and activism in a region of the country that is
one of the nation's poorest and has one of the most drastic
disparities in education and opportunity, a situation especially
true for the Delta's vast African American population. With Catfish
Dream Julian Rankin provides a fascinating portrait of a place
through his intimate biography of Scott, a hero at once so typical
and so exceptional in his community.
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