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Author Foley, Neil

Title The white scourge : Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture / Neil Foley
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 326 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series American crossroads ; 2
American crossroads ; 2
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-316) and index
Notes English
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Subject Cotton picking -- Social aspects -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
Cotton growing -- Social aspects -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
African Americans -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
Mexican Americans -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
White people -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
African Americans
Cotton growing -- Social aspects
Mexican Americans
Race relations
Social conditions
White people
SUBJECT Texas -- Race relations
Texas -- Social conditions
Subject Texas
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520918528
0520918525
0585047723
9780585047720
9780520207233
0520207238
9780520207240
0520207246