Blood oranges [electronic resource] :colonialism and agriculture in the South Texas borderlands / Timothy Paul Bowman ; foreword by Sterling Evans.
By: Bowman, Timothy Paul [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
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BookSeries: Connecting the greater west series: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016] 2015)Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource (pages cm.).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781623494155; 162349415X.Subject(s): 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 centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 338.1/7431097644 Online resources: Full text available: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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