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Culture and Identity in the Biloxi Seafood Industry
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"Vietnamese boat being built in yard, Biloxi, Mississippi 1984.
Photograph by Tom Rankin
Down Around Biloxi:
Culture and Identity in the Biloxi Seafood Industry
by Aimee Schmidt
Many claim that the sea-food industry built Biloxi. The industry burgeoned around the turn of the century. Polish migrants from Baltimore, Slavonian immigrants, and Louisiana Cajuns provided the labor that laid the foundations for Biloxi's station as "Seafood Capital of the World." Biloxi's latest immigrants to the seafood industry, the Vietnamese, arrived during the late 1970s and early 80s and revived the languid industry by accepting packing plant jobs that more established groups had begun to avoid. They built their own boats, opened businesses, and became a vibrant part of the Biloxi seafood and ethnic community.
Noting the dynamic interaction and adaptation of incoming national and cultural groups in New Orleans, Louisiana, George F. Reinecke utilized the term "creolization" to refer to the result of the interactive forces which led to the creation of a local ethnicity. Though on a much smaller population scale, Biloxi claims a similar history. Here the number of ethnic groups is fewer, but the basic premise the same: the interaction of ethnic groups helped create a community identity and occupational links reinforced it. The multi-ethnic nature of the seafood industry was present in its beginnings and continues today. Slavonians, Cajuns, and Vietnamese have each contributed to the cultural landscape of Biloxi. Their livelihood has been their shared culture, but they also strive to maintain their separate ethnic identities. Biloxi's history illustrates a continuum of ethnic influences in one Southern port city and demonstrates how those diverse elements fashioned a community identity.
Blessing of the Fleet, Biloxi, 1994.
Photograph by Aimee Schmidt
A Life of Faith, A Life of Celebration
"...That church (St. Michael) was built on shrimp pennies and women"
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