Mississippi Triangle

For anyone whose wanted more information on the relationships between white people, Black people, and Asian people in the Mississippi Delta after watching Sinners, can’t recommend this documentary enough! To examine racial triangulation and look at Asian people of multiple…

Movie Good or Movie Bad?

The procedural side of cotton production seems meditative for the viewer and a hand-pricking for the worker. Hearing directly from Reagan-era Delta laborers melds the divide while talking about these lines between.

JulesLarson

Fascinating on multiple levels, really loved this: - A chronicle of a unique community in the Jim Crow system, a Chinese diaspora community in the Mississippi Delta, originally settled by Chinese laborers who worked on the railroads in the latter 19th century. Neither…

Mathias

Christine Choy deserves all the accolades & praise in this world.  That southern accent runs thick Capitalistic greeeeed profiting off the work of POC doing the hard labor.  So interesting seeing the racial perspective from the mouths of the people from the 70s & 80s.…

jonharrisonsb

teaching this in my intro to asian american studies class on racial triangulation

Kristine

Wonderful restoration presented at AAIFF. Proximity to whiteness is a hell of a drug.

zhouweiwen

Christine Choy, 52 Weeks, 52 Different Women Filmmakers: 2022 #92

delomir

I grew up in the main town this was filmed in, Greenville, Mississippi. I exoected to reckgnize some names and places and maybe even some faces, though it is from 1974. Was surprised to see the school I attended and its Chinese principal were featured. The cultures in this…

Andrea Von Antz

Fascinating work of ethnography, the kind of work that both surprises you with how relevant it remains, and also showcases things that become increasingly important as they (and those who remember them) recede into history. The biggest value here is the snapshot of life in…

J. J. Wright