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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: American crossroads ; 2Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1997.Description: xv, 326 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520207238 (alk. paper)
  • 9780520207233 (alk. paper)
  • 0520207246 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780520207240 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F395.A1 F65 1997
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-316) and index.

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.