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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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)