| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map. |
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text file |
| Series |
Connecting the greater west series
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Connecting the greater west series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-262) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Foreign workers, Mexican -- Texas, South -- History -- 20th century.
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Foreign workers, Mexican. |
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South Texas. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Migrant agricultural laborers -- Texas, South -- History -- 20th century.
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Migrant agricultural laborers. |
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Mexican American agricultural laborers -- Texas, South -- History -- 20th century.
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Mexican American agricultural laborers. |
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Unfair labor practices -- Texas, South -- History -- 20th century.
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Unfair labor practices. |
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Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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Mexico. |
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Emigration and immigration. |
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Mexican-American Border Region -- Ethnic relations.
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Texas, South -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bowman, Timothy Paul, 1978- Blood oranges. First edition. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2016] 9781623494148 1623494141 (DLC) 2015044744 (OCoLC)930026792 |
| ISBN |
9781623494148 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1623494141 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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162349415X |
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9781623494155 (electronic book) |
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