Blood oranges :: colonialism and agriculture in the South Texas borderlands /

Blood Oranges traces the origins and legacy of racial differences between Anglo Americans and ethnic Mexicans (Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans) in the South Texas borderlands in the twentieth century. Author Tim Bowman uncovers a complex web of historical circumstances that caused ethnic Mex...

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1. Verfasser: Bowman, Timothy Paul, 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]
Ausgabe:First edition
Schriftenreihe:Connecting the greater west series.
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Zusammenfassung:Blood Oranges traces the origins and legacy of racial differences between Anglo Americans and ethnic Mexicans (Mexican nationals and Mexican Americans) in the South Texas borderlands in the twentieth century. Author Tim Bowman uncovers a complex web of historical circumstances that caused ethnic Mexicans in the region to rank among the poorest, least educated, and unhealthiest demographic in the country. The key to this development, Bowman finds, was a "modern colonization movement," a process that had its roots in the Mexican-American war of the nineteenth century but reached its culmination
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-262) and index
ISBN:9781623494148
1623494141
162349415X
9781623494155

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