SOC 426/526, COD 526

The Delta in Global Context

Fall Semester 2003

Paper Topic

McMichael Chapters 1-3

Assignment:  Write a two-page reflective essay on the readings using the following as a guideline:

Choose one important concept presented by McMichael in Chapters 1-3, and apply this concept to explain and/or understand community development in the Mississippi Delta and American South in the post-WWII era.

Examples of concepts:

• colonization

• inward and outward development

• world factory

• food regime

• regionalism

• a concept of your choice

Due at the beginning of class on September 8.