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

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

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Author / Creator:	Bowman, Timothy Paul, 1978- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016]
Description:	xiv, 266 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Connecting the greater west series Connecting the greater west series.
Subject:	Foreign workers, Mexican -- Texas, South -- History -- 20th century. Migrant agricultural laborers -- Texas, South -- History -- 20th century. Mexican American agricultural laborers -- Texas, South -- History -- 20th century. Unfair labor practices -- Texas, South -- History -- 20th century. Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects. Ethnic relations. Foreign workers, Mexican. Mexican American agricultural laborers. Migrant agricultural laborers. Unfair labor practices. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century. Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic relations. Texas, South -- Ethnic relations. Mexico. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region. Texas, South. United States. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11614697

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ISBN:	9781623494148 1623494141 9781623494155
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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 in the twentieth century. South Texas, in Bowman's words, became an "internal economy just inside of the US-Mexico border." Beginning in the twentieth century, Anglo Americans consciously transformed the region from that of a culturally "Mexican" space, with an economy based on cattle, into one dominated by commercial agriculture focused on citrus and winter vegetables. As Anglos gained political and economic control in the region, they also consolidated their power along racial lines with laws and customs not unlike the "Jim Crow" system of southern segregation. Bowman argues that the Mexican labor class was thus transformed into a marginalized racial caste, the legacy of which remained in place even as large-scale agribusiness cemented its hold on the regional economy later in the century. -- Amazon.com.
Govt.docs classification:	Z TA475.8 B684BL

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