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The white scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture
Neil Foley
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Frontmatter
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page xi)
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PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (page xiii)
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INTRODUCTION (page 1)
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1. The Old South in the Southwest: Westward Expansion of Cotton Culture, 1820-1900 (page 17)
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2. "The Little Brown Man in Gringo Land": The "Second Color Menace" in the Western South (page 40)
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3. The Whiteness of Cotton: Race, Labor Relations, and the Tenant Question, 1900-1920 (page 64)
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4. Tom Hickey and the Failure of Interracial Unity: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in the Socialist Party of Texas, 1911-1917 (page 92)
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5. The Scientific Management of Farm Workers: Mexicans, Mechanization, and the Growth of Corporate Cotton Culture in South-Central Texas, 1900-1930 (page 118)
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6. The Whiteness of Manhood: Women, Gender Identity, and "Men's Work" on the Farm (page 141)
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7. The Darker Phases of Whiteness: The New Deal, Tenant Farmers, and the Collapse of Cotton Tenancy, 1933-1940 (page 163)
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8. The Demise of Agrarian Whiteness: The Southern Tenant Farmers' Union in Texas and the Racialization of Farm Workers (page 183)
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CONCLUSION (page 203)
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NOTES (page 215)
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BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 279)
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INDEX (page 317)
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Published: c1997
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520207240 (paper)
- 9780520207233 (hardcover)