White Metropolis Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001

Name: White Metropolis Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001
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ISBN: 9780292712744

ISBN-10: 029271274X

ISBN-13: 9780292712744

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael Phillips

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From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical reality? In this book, Michael Phillips delves deeply into Dallas' racial and religious past and uncovers a complicated history of resistance, collaboration, and assimilation between the city' African American, Mexican American, and Jewish communities and its white power elite. Exploring more than 150 years of Dallas history, Phillips reveals how white business leaders created both a white…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 1/15/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 299
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Michael Phillips is a lecturer in English at the University of Graz.



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Through a Glass Darkly: Memory, Race, and Region in Dallas, Texas



The Music of Cracking Necks: Dallas Civilization and Its Discontents



True to Dixie and to Moses: Yankees, White Trash, Jews, and the Lost Cause



The Great White Plague: Whiteness, Culture, and the Unmaking of the Dallas Working Class



Consequences of Powerlessness: Whiteness as Class Politics



Water Force: Resisting White Supremacy under Jim Crow



White Like Me: Mexican Americans, Jews, and the Elusive Politics of Identity



A Blight and a Sin: Segregation, the Kennedy Assassination, and the Wreckage of Whiteness


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index