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Additional authors

1. Project Muse.

Description

1. 1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates :) : illustrations, map.

Series statement

1. Connecting the greater west series

Uniform title

1. Blood Oranges (Online)
2. Connecting the greater west series.
3. Book collections on Project MUSE.

Alternative title

1. Blood Oranges (Online)

Subject

1. Unfair labor practices > Texas, South > History > 20th century
2. Mexican American agricultural laborers > Texas, South > History > 20th century
3. Migrant agricultural laborers > Texas, South > History > 20th century
4. Foreign workers, Mexican > Texas, South > History > 20th century
5. Texas, South > Ethnic relations
6. Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic relations
7. United States > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects > History > 20th century
8. Mexico > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects > History > 20th century

Contents

1. 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.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access (note)

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Source of description (note)

1. Description based on print version record.

Author

1. Bowman, Timothy Paul, 1978-

Title

1. Blood Oranges [electronic resource] : Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands / Timothy Paul Bowman ; foreword by Sterling Evans.

Imprint

1. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)

Edition

1. First edition.

Series

1. Connecting the greater west series
2. Connecting the greater west series.
3. Book collections on Project MUSE.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Access

1. Access restricted to authorized users.

Note

1. Description based on print version record.

Connect to:

1. Available from home with a valid library card
2. Available onsite at NYPL

Added author

1. Project Muse.

LCCN

1. 2015044744