Houston bound : culture and color in a Jim Crow city /

Houston bound : culture and color in a Jim Crow city /

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Author / Creator:Steptoe, Tyina L., 1975- author.
Imprint:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:ix, 327 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:American crossroads ; 41
American crossroads ; 41.
Subject:
Minorities -- Texas -- Houston -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Music -- Social aspects -- Texas -- Houston -- History -- 20th century.
Emigration and immigration.
Ethnic relations.
Minorities -- Social conditions.
Music -- Social aspects.
Houston (Tex.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Houston (Tex.) -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Houston (Tex.) -- History -- 20th century.
Texas -- Houston.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10394679
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ISBN:9780520282575
0520282574
9780520282582
0520282582
9780520958531
0520958535
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"From World War I through the 1960s, Houston was transformed into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. Houston Bound draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrations--particularly those of Mexicans and Creoles--complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. This migration history also traces the emergence of Houston's blues and jazz scenes in the 1920s as well as the hybrid forms of these genres--like zydeco and Tejano soul--that arose when migrants forged shared social space. Houston's location on the Gulf Coast, poised between the American South and the West, provides for a particularly rich examination of how the histories of colonization, slavery, and segregation produced divergent ways of thinking about race"--Provided by publisher.

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