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Blood Oranges Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands

Title
Blood Oranges [electronic resource] : Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands / Timothy Paul Bowman ; foreword by Sterling Evans.
Author
Bowman, Timothy Paul, 1978-
Publication
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors
Project Muse.
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates :) : illustrations, map.
Series Statement
Connecting the greater west series
Uniform Title
  • Blood Oranges (Online)
  • Connecting the greater west series.
  • Book collections on Project MUSE.
Alternative Title
Blood Oranges (Online)
Subject
  • Unfair labor practices > Texas, South > History > 20th century
  • Mexican American agricultural laborers > Texas, South > History > 20th century
  • Migrant agricultural laborers > Texas, South > History > 20th century
  • Foreign workers, Mexican > Texas, South > History > 20th century
  • Texas, South > Ethnic relations
  • Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic relations
  • United States > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects > History > 20th century
  • Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects > History > 20th century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
Note on terminology -- Introduction -- Border colonies: Mexicans, Anglos, and the South Texas borderlands from ranchland to commercial agriculture -- From farmers to colonizers: boosterism and the creation of commercial farming colonies -- Making the border orange: citriculture and the changing landscape of the South Texas borderlands during the 1920s -- "More Texan than the Texans": colonialism and race in the South Texas borderlands, 1917-1930 -- Many valleys: the fates of small growers and Mexican workers during the 1930s -- Toward a homeland: the Chicano Movement and the intellectual creation of homeland in South Texas -- Conclusion -- Notes.
OCLC
ssj0001682765
Author
Bowman, Timothy Paul, 1978-
Title
Blood Oranges [electronic resource] : Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands / Timothy Paul Bowman ; foreword by Sterling Evans.
Imprint
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Edition
First edition.
Series
Connecting the greater west series
Connecting the greater west series.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Note
Description based on print version record.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Project Muse.
LCCN
2015044744
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