The Untold Story Of America's Southern Chinese [Chinese Food: An All-American Cuisine, Pt. 2] | AJ+
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There’s a rather unknown community of Chinese-Americans who’ve lived in the Mississippi Delta for more than a hundred years. They played an important role in the segregated South in the middle of the 20th century. Join us as we get a taste of Southern Chinese food and learn about the unique history of the Delta Chinese.
Watch Part 1: How Chop Suey Saved San Francisco’s Chinatown https://youtu.be/DvXJoCiP6hM
Watch Part 3: Inside The Chinese Food Mecca Of Los Angeles https://youtu.be/cNRYdW_hr5s
Resources:
“The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White” by James W. Loewen
“Southern Fried Rice: Life in a Chinese Laundry in the Deep South” by John Jung
“Chopsticks in the Land of Cotton: Lives of Mississippi Delta Chinese Grocers” by John Jung
“Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South” by Adrienne Berard
Special Thanks:
Adrienne Berard
Audra Ang
John Jung
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The elderly Americans of Asian descent of the old days, their children went to college and found better jobs elsewhere and it is still happening this way with the new crops of Asian immigrants. Everybody working hard for a better future.
I never knew this part of history, interesting and great to know!
I must admit it is a whole entire mood to hear an elderly chinese woman speak with a southern accent!
Great vid thanks for aducating
Doing that type of delta Chinese food is easy and delicious
Yet another beautiful facet of our vast and varied Human Family. Great piece !!!
I dont see how America get labeled Racist when you will never find the reverse of this in another country…
These people are as American as anyone could be. This is so cool. Knew about the Italian immigrants in Mississippi, but had no idea about the Chinese Community in The Delta. May God Bless them all.
And people laugh at me when I tell them the best Chinese food restaurant I've ever been to was in Greenville Mississippi. Best tamales too. The Delta is such a unique place. I'm in Houston now, and there was a little Mexican restaurant in tiny, one red-light, Bruce Mississippi, that blows away any place I've ever been in Texas.
I was a military brat, and grew up all over the country. But my Grandparents were born and raised in Greenville ( both passed over 20 years ago). As a kid, I spent every summer at their place. Hearing that accent again really brings back the memories. It's so distinctive, and you just don't hear anything quite like it anywhere else in the south, only in the Delta. The timbre and tone of Sally Chow's voice is almost identical to my grandmother's. Coupled with that Greenville accent, gave me goosebumps for a minute there.
Interesting how back then the Chinese served the black community when whites wouldn't. Nowadays the black community returned the favor with acts of violence towards the Chinese during the pandemic.
It's almost poetic.
Somebody please make a movie out of this !
Hearing Chinese-Americans with southern accent are very rare. I'm from the West Coast btw.
Lincoln approves that accent.
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@2:27 lol, "you have tha hwwwwhite… "
First time I’ve ever heard a Chinese woman with a southern accent. Cool.
They r not foreigner, they born in America..
What an amazing cultural mashup!
Is it really so shocking that people don’t expect an old Asian woman to have a perfect southern accent? No, actually, you don’t look like a typical American.
Thanks for showing Greenville when mentioning the delta.
You can take the east to the south. The south wins.
Amazing! Chinese people work very hard…Asians as a work really hard. Nowadays, the Arabic & Indians operate cold stores and supermarkets.
time for some FLU FLAMMMMMMING
Yes dear, your look and DNA are closer to the native Americans than the colonists.
Hearing Chinese people with a southern accent is almostn unreal and amazing to me
Thank you so much everything..
May our heavenly father Bless you always..in Jesus name we pray..AMEN
Man I remember going to that store in Clarksdale as a kid with my granddad for fresh seafood 😂
Her accent is so south i was surprise … It tell you how long they had been there
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I only clicked to hear Chinese people with heavy southern American accents.
Some white people are just special with the things they say🤣(ornamental)🤣
I really love this topic, I’d love to hear about other Americanised dishes as well. Al Jazeera plus did a great mini doc on Chinese restaurants in the Southern United States if anyone is looking for more on this.
Mississippi it’s beautiful there
“ are we foreigners “ couldn’t put it in a more poignant way… entrapments of racism
It’s perfect for destroying stereotypes … people form solid mold in their head and don’t let them go …
The Delta Chinese look more American than the whites or black, because they look most like the real Americans, you know, the Navajo et cetera.