Doc Eubanks is a Mississippi treasure, and this chapter reminds me of the time I spent with Southern Echo, which was founded by SNCC icons Hollis Watkins and Mike Sayer as well as Leroy Johnson, as they fought against the attempt to use the building of the casinos as a way to build expensive housing to create a separate school district in Robinsonville, MS, for the white elite in the Tunica/Memphis area. Thus, Doc Eubanks' chapter, along with his book, is an essential read to understand how Mississippi's poverty is planned and perpetuated to maintain a permanent labor class rooted in racism.
I taught at Rosa Fort Middle School in the late 1990s when the casinos were a major destination for tourists and the main source of jobs for my students’ families. I’m so looking forward to reading this book and learning the deeper story.
As they said in that one episode of King of the Hill, Tunica is where slot machines go to die. I have been wondering if any were open still. The casino in Greenville is equally sad. Thank you for this eye opening writing!
I learned so much from this and am eager for your reading at Lemuria. And your Sam's Town photograph is beautiful!
Doc Eubanks is a Mississippi treasure, and this chapter reminds me of the time I spent with Southern Echo, which was founded by SNCC icons Hollis Watkins and Mike Sayer as well as Leroy Johnson, as they fought against the attempt to use the building of the casinos as a way to build expensive housing to create a separate school district in Robinsonville, MS, for the white elite in the Tunica/Memphis area. Thus, Doc Eubanks' chapter, along with his book, is an essential read to understand how Mississippi's poverty is planned and perpetuated to maintain a permanent labor class rooted in racism.
I taught at Rosa Fort Middle School in the late 1990s when the casinos were a major destination for tourists and the main source of jobs for my students’ families. I’m so looking forward to reading this book and learning the deeper story.
As they said in that one episode of King of the Hill, Tunica is where slot machines go to die. I have been wondering if any were open still. The casino in Greenville is equally sad. Thank you for this eye opening writing!