FEW OF the Iranian academics working on the health houses project came with their wives to Mississippi from Iran in 2010. They were shocked by what they saw: “This is America?” they said. I felt the same way when I went to the Delta with Dr. Shirley and Dr. Shahbazi and another doctor named Eva Henderson-Camara. The first thing you notice about the Delta, especially when you’ve gone looking for images of poverty, is that you don’t see any people. So much of it is
