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Canada and the United States

Christopher Waldrep. Roots of Disorder: Race and Criminal Justice in the American South, 1817–80. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1998. Pp. xiv, 267. Cloth $45.00, paper $18.95.

Book titles can be misleading. This book does not actually cover "race and criminal justice in the American South." It focuses, instead, on a single county in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, a unique region known for its large cotton plantations, huge black majority, and brutal Civil War experience. Examining the Delta has been a favorite pastime of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, musicologists, and assorted students of American culture. In the 1930s, John Dollard and Hortense Powdermaker published monumental accounts of day-to-day life in the Delta town of Indianola, while Allison Davis did much the same for Natchez, on the Delta's southern rim. Since that time scholars have produced a steady stream of monographs and dissertations about slavery, war, reconstruction, lynching, the blues, sharecropping, segregation, and civil rights in the Delta, culminating in James C. Cobb's superb overall history, The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity (1992). . . .

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