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The Flood Year 1927 - A Cultural History (Paperback)
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The Flood Year 1927 - A Cultural History (Paperback)
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A richly nuanced cultural history of the Great Mississippi flood
The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river
flood in U.S. history, drowning crops and displacing more than half
a million people across seven states. It was also the first
environmental disaster to be experienced virtually on a mass scale.
The Flood Year 1927 draws from newspapers, radio broadcasts,
political cartoons, vaudeville, blues songs, poetry, and fiction to
show how this event provoked an intense and lasting cultural
response. Americans at first seemed united in what Herbert Hoover
called a "great relief machine," but deep rifts soon arose.
Southerners, pointing to faulty federal levee design, decried the
attack of Yankee water. The condition of African American evacuees
prompted comparisons to slavery from pundits like W.E.B. Du Bois
and Ida B. Wells. And environmentalists like Gifford Pinchot called
the flood "the most colossal blunder in civilized history." Susan
Scott Parrish examines how these and other key figures-from
entertainers Will Rogers, Miller & Lyles, and Bessie Smith to
authors Sterling Brown, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright-shaped
public awareness and collective memory of the event. The crises of
this period that usually dominate historical accounts are war and
financial collapse, but The Flood Year 1927 allows us to assess how
mediated environmental disasters became central to modern
consciousness.
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