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100 1 Hodges, John Oliver,|d1944-|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/n2012077310
245 10 Delta fragments :|bthe recollections of a sharecropper's
son /|cJohn Oliver Hodges.
250 1st ed.
264 1 Knoxville :|bThe University of Tennessee Press,|c[2013]
300 1 online resource (xvii, 228 pages) :|billustrations, map
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504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and
index.
505 0 Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Learning; The
Delta; The Wilsons; The Hodgeses; My Mother; My Sister; My
Stepfather; Whittington Plantation; Settlement Time; One-
Room Schoolhouse; G Street Boys; Schoolmates; My Teachers;
Going to the 'House; Part II: Reflecting; Delta Blues;
Gambling on the River; Black Ways and Other Folkways;
African Gods in Mississippi; A Delta Revival; The Black
Church; The Black Preacher; The Folk Sermon; Is God Good?;
The Color Line; Emmett Till; Ruleville Revisited:
Reflections Fifty Years After Marius; Civil Rights;
Medgar; 1963.
505 8 Endesha: A New Walk for FreedomWhites in the Struggle;
Reunion as Pilgrimage; Epilogue: The Delta Then and Now;
Appendix 1: Table of Black and White Persons in theDelta
by Population, Education, and Income; Appendix 2: Reports
Relating to 1962 Civil RightsActivities in Which Author
Was Involved; Selected Bibliography; Index.
520 The son of black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges
attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in
the 1950s and & rsquo;60s, worked in plantation cotton
fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple
degrees and become a tenured university professor. Both
poignant and thought provoking, Delta Fragments is Hodges
& rsquo;s autobiographical journey back to the land of his
birth. Brimming with vivid memories of family life,
childhood friendships, the quest for knowledge, and the
often brutal injustices of the Jim Crow South, it also
offers an insightful meditation on the present state of
race relations in America. Hodges has structured the book
as a series of brief but revealing vignettes grouped into
two main sections. In part 1, & ldquo;Learning, & rdquo;
he introduces us to the town of Greenwood and to his
parents, sister, and myriad aunts, uncles, cousins,
teachers, and schoolmates. He tells stories of growing up
on a plantation, dancing in smoky juke joints, playing
sandlot football and baseball, journeying to the West
Coast as a nineteen-year-old to meet the biological father
he never knew while growing up, and leaving family and
friends to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta. In part 2,
& ldquo;Reflecting, & rdquo; he connects his firsthand
experience with broader themes: the civil rights movement,
Delta blues, black folkways, gambling in Mississippi, the
vital role of religion in the African American community,
and the perplexing problems of poverty, crime, and an
underfunded educational system that still challenge black
and white citizens of the Delta. Whether recalling the
assassination of Medgar Evers (whom he knew personally),
the dynamism of an African American church service, or the
joys of reconnecting with old friends at a biennial class
reunion, Hodges writes with a rare combination of humor,
compassion, and & mdash;when describing the injustices
that were all too frequently inflicted on him andhis
contemporaries & mdash;righteous anger. But his ultimate
goal, he contends, is not to close doors but to open them:
to inspire dialogue, to start a conversation, & ldquo;to
be provocative without being insistent or definitive. &
rdquo; Recently retired, John O. Hodges was an associate
professor of religious studies at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, where he was also the chair of
African and African American Studies from 1997 to 2002.
His articles have appeared in the CLA Journal, the
Langston Hughes Review, Soundings, and The Southern
Quarterly.
588 0 Print version record.
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