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Houston bound : culture and color in a Jim Crow city

Title
Houston bound : culture and color in a Jim Crow city / Tyina L. Steptoe.
Author
Steptoe, Tyina L., 1975-
Publication
  • Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
  • ©2016

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Description
ix, 327 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
"From World War I through the 1960s, Houston was transformed into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. Houston Bound draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrations--particularly those of Mexicans and Creoles--complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. This migration history also traces the emergence of Houston's blues and jazz scenes in the 1920s as well as the hybrid forms of these genres--like zydeco and Tejano soul--that arose when migrants forged shared social space. Houston's location on the Gulf Coast, poised between the American South and the West, provides for a particularly rich examination of how the histories of colonization, slavery, and segregation produced divergent ways of thinking about race"--Provided by publisher.
Series Statement
American crossroads ; 41
Uniform Title
American crossroads ; 41.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
Contents
Introduction : when worlds collide -- The Bayou City in black and white -- Old wards, new neighbors -- Jim Crow-ing culture -- "We were too white to be black and too black to be white" -- "All America dances to it" -- "Blaxicans" and Black Creoles -- Conclusion : race in modern Houston.
Call Number
IE 16-1453
ISBN
  • 9780520282575
  • 0520282574
  • 9780520282582
  • 0520282582
LCCN
2015019103
OCLC
910310068
Author
Steptoe, Tyina L., 1975- author.
Title
Houston bound : culture and color in a Jim Crow city / Tyina L. Steptoe.
Publisher
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Copyright Date
©2016
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
American crossroads ; 41
American crossroads ; 41.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-293) and index.
Chronological Term
1900 - 1999
Research Call Number
IE 16-1453
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