A new edition of a classic history of the U.S.'s poorest and
most heavily African American region--the Mississippi River
Delta
CLYDE WOODS is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
Development Arrested has no peer, for Clyde Woods is a rare scholar
who takes the blues seriously as theory and social critique.
Arguing that this folk discourse emerged in response to economic
and political restructuring in the Delta during the 20th century,
he goes on to show how it constitutes a critique of the plantation
South, New South modernization, and the transformation of
capitalist agriculture during the so-called Green Revolution. To
paraphrase something Marx said a long time ago, Development
Arrested reveals the connection between the arm of criticism (i.e.
the blues/social science) and the criticism of arms: struggle for
power in the Delta.
*Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Race Rebels: Culture, Politics, and
the Black Working Class*
[A] stunning and fresh analysis of the political economy of white
supremacy and the redemptive power of the blues. All Americans,
especially students, scholars, general readers and policy makers,
who care about the extension of democracy and the future of black
freedom, should read and discuss Clyde Wood's intriguing book.
*Darlene Clark Hine, co-author of The African American Odyssey*
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