Down in the Delta: Race Relations between African and Italian Americans in Mississippi 1880-1940 - 11/7/24

Down in the Delta: Race Relations between African and Italian Americans in Mississippi 1880-1940 - Charlene Fletcher

Nov. 7th - 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm ET, Dugan Hall room 118 or Zoom

In this session, participants will learn about Dr. Fletcher’s new research about a transnational perspective to race and confinement in the American South. The project, Down in the Delta: Race Relations between African and Italian Americans in Mississippi, 1880-1940, explores Italian migration and experiences in the Mississippi Delta between the late nineteenth and the mid-twentieth centuries. It interrogates the Italian padrone system as a form of confinement and relationships between Italians and African Americans because of shared proximity and experience in the rural Jim Crow South.