LESSONS FROM BLACK AND CHINESE RELATIONS IN THE DEEP SOUTH, BALDWIN LEE, ‘MISSISSIPPI TRIANGLE,’ AND THE LIMITS OF UPWARD MOBILITY.
By Imani Perry, The Atlantic, June 10, 2022
Mississippi Triangle is a 1983 documentary about the Black, white, and Chinese communities in the Mississippi Delta region, which I rewatched the other day, prompted by a message from a friend. It is one of a plethora of works in film and art that show, contrary to popular perception, that the South has never had just two racial groups.
