ISBN:
9780520282582
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9780520958531 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
341 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780520958531
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
American Crossroads v.41
DDC:
305.800976414110904
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town 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 uses music and sound to examine these racial complexities, tracing the emergence of Houston's blue...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
