GGIS Colloquium | Between White and Black, Chinese-owned Grocery Stores in the Deep South

Between White and Black, Chinese-owned Grocery Stores in the Deep South
The MS Delta Chinese found the economic niche of grocery stores in the Jim Crow South. Simultaneously concentrated and scattered around the MS Delta region, these grocery stores served as multiscalar, multiracial, and multifunctional space triangulated between White and Black. The Chinese experience between Black and White exemplifies the power of human agency in rescaling the hegemony of White supremacy through the making of place and identity.

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Above photo: The Seu Brothers and their children inside the Min Sang & Co. grocery store, Greenville, Mississippi, late 1940s. Photo courtesy of Frieda Seu Quon.