The real history of the complex relationship between Chinese and Black Americans in the Mississippi Delta

Erika Hayasaki [UC Irvine associate professor of English] writes, “In recent weeks, the new vampire thriller Sinners, set in the Mississippi Delta in 1932, has awakened a new audience to the lesser-known history of Chinese immigrants in the region.” … “They started Chinese schools. They moved out of state to other places where they could send their children to white schools,” says Claire Jean Kim, a political scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who has written about the Mississippi Black and Chinese. Black schools were underfunded, she added ….

For the full story, please visit https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-real-history-of-the-complex-relationship-between-chinese-and-black-americans-in-the-mississippi-delta-180986615/.