White Scourge Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture

Name: White Scourge Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture
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ISBN: 9780520207240

ISBN-10: 0520207246

ISBN-13: 9780520207240

Edition: 1998

Authors: Neil Foley

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In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1940s, bridges the intellectual chasm between African American and Southern history on one hand and Chicano and Southwestern history on the other.The White Scourgedescribes a unique borderlands region, where the cultures of the South, West, and Mexico overlap, to provide a deeper understanding of the process of identity formation and to challenge the binary opposition between "black" and "white"…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/21/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 341
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298

Neil Foley holds the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in History at Southern Methodist University.



List of Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Old South in the Southwest: Westward Expansion of Cotton Culture, 1820-1900



"The Little Brown Man in Gringo Land": The "Second Color Menace" in the Western South



The Whiteness of Cotton: Race, Labor Relations, and the Tenant Question, 1900-1920



Tom Hickey and the Failure of Interracial Unity: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in the Socialist Party of Texas, 1911-1917



The Scientific Management of Farm Workers: Mexicans, Mechanization, and the Growth of Corporate Cotton Culture in South-Central Texas, 1900-1930



The Whiteness of Manhood: Women, Gender Identity, and "Men's Work" on the Farm



The Darker Phases of Whiteness: The New Deal, Tenant Farmers, and the Collpase of Cotton Tenancy, 1933-1940



The Demise of Agrarian Whiteness: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union in Texas and the Racialization of Farm Workers


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index