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Steptoe, Tyina Leaneice.

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Dixie West: Race, migration, and the color lines in Jim Crow Houston.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Dixie West: Race, migration, and the color lines in Jim Crow Houston./
Author:	Steptoe, Tyina Leaneice.
Description:	279 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Stephen Kantrowitz.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-05A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3314354
ISBN:	9780549635871

Dixie West: Race, migration, and the color lines in Jim Crow Houston.
Steptoe, Tyina Leaneice.

Dixie West: Race, migration, and the color lines in Jim Crow Houston. - 279 p.

Adviser: Stephen Kantrowitz.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2008.

"Dixie West" examines the era of legal segregation in Houston, Texas and argues that, in the first half of the twentieth century, rural-to-urban and transnational migrations destabilized racial authority and racial categories in U.S. cities. Between the years 1910 and 1950, Houston transformed from a black and white city into a multiethnic metropolis as the population increased from 79,000 to 600,000. The movement of people into and within Houston complicated white supremacy and the very meanings of race.

ISBN: 9780549635871Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Dixie West: Race, migration, and the color lines in Jim Crow Houston.
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520 $a Using manuscript collections, oral histories, and census data, "Dixie West" focuses on the experiences of people of color who built communities and competed for power in the city. African Americans, the largest non-Anglo group in Jim Crow-era Houston, fought legal segregation and racial violence from white police officers and Ku Klux Klansmen who tried to control black people and black spaces. People of Mexican descent, including Tejanos and Mexicanos, negotiated race relations in a city where segregation laws divided people along a black and white binary. Likewise, the law designated Creoles of Color from Louisiana as "negroes," but their attempts to carve out spaces for themselves show that their identity could not be circumscribed by their legal classification. The growth of the African American, Mexican American, and Creole populations altered politics, labor, and culture in the city.
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