tmdailyarts: Note: This article contains spoilers. During the first half-hour of “Sinners,” hundreds of thoughts rushed through my mind, ranging from how gorgeous Miles Caton’s (debut) voice is to wondering how they seamlessly shot Michael B. Jordan (“Creed III”) passing a cigarette to himself. But the thing that stuck out to me the most was the appearance of Bo (Yao, “#LookAtMe”) and Grace (Li Jun Li, “Babylon”) in the film; an Asian American shopkeeping couple in the Deep South. As an Asian American, my personal knowledge of the Asian American diaspora in the early 20th century consisted of the large communities on the West Coast of the United States — not anywhere near Clarksdale, Mississippi. After the film ended, I did some research and discovered that Chinese Americans really did have a presence in the Mississippi Delta at that time. The spread of Chinese Americans to the Mississippi Delta area began in the late 19th century, as white plantation owners used newly immigrated wor...