Struggle for identity in the most Southern place on Earth: The Chinese in the Mississippi Delta.

The Mississippi Delta, an alluvial plain flanked by the agency of the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers in the northwest corner of the state, has been described by the agency of historian James Cobb as "the greatest in quantity Southern place on Earth." (1) It proffers stark contrasts. Because of an economic heritage born on the outside of cotton farming, a wealthy planter aristocracy has historically been juxtaposed against an impoverished laborer class. The economic contrasts are amplified by the agency of persistent racial and class differences. Landmarks like as abandoned railroad tracks and bayous establish boundaries within which unwritten empires maintain a black/white dichotomy Living inside those boundaries and struggling to find their