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The white scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture

Foley, Neil.

Year: c1997.

Publisher: University of California Press.

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Frontmatter

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONCLUSION

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Title:

The white scourge : Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture Neil Foley.

Author:

Foley, Neil

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The white scourge : Mexicans, Blacks, and poor whites in Texas cotton culture Neil Foley.
Foley, Neil
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997.

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Subject Headings:

• 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
• Whites -- Texas -- History -- 20th century
• Texas -- Race relations
• Texas -- Social conditions

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