Black homeplace migration to the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta: Ambiguous journeys, uncertain outcomes

Southeastern Geographer

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-214

  Brown, Robert N ^a   Cromartie, John ^b  

^a APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American return migration; Ethnography; Mississippi Delta

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BLACK POPULATION; DIASPORA; RETURN MIGRATION;

MISSISSIPPI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YAZOO COUNTY;

EID: 33750555982     PISSN: 0038366X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/sgo.2006.0018     Document Type: Article

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