African Americans in South Texas history / edited by Bruce A. Glasrud ; foreword by Cary D. Wintz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glasrud, Bruce A.

Series:

Perspectives on south Texas

Perspectives on South Texas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Texas, South--History.

African Americans.

Race relations.

History.

Texas, South--Race relations.

Texas, South.

South Texas.

Physical Description:

xii, 353 pages ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.

Summary:

The history of South Texas is more racially and ethnically complex than many people realize. As a border area, South Texas has experienced some especially interesting forms of racial and ethnic intersection, influenced by the relatively small number of blacks (especially in certain counties), the function and importance of the South Texas cattle trade, proximity to Mexico, and the history of anti-black violence. The essays in African Americans in South Texas History give insight into this fascinating history.

The articles in this volume, written over a span of twenty-seven years, were chosen for their readability, scholarship, and general interest. These chronologically ordered chapters cover the black experience in South Texas from slavery through civil rights to the present, focusing on the major topics and themes that have impacted African Americans in this region. Read together, they afford both a broad and a deep understanding of the African American experience in South Texas. A selected bibliography adds to the research value of the volume, designed for students, scholars, and general readers interested in South Texas history or in African American history and culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: the African American experience in South Texas / Bruce A. Glasrud

Defending the unnecessary: slavery in San Antonio in the 1850s / Larry P. Knight

Just southwest of Dixie: Reconstruction in South Texas, 1865-1876 / Kenneth Wayne Howell

"Wantonly maltreated and slain, simply because they are free": racial violence during reconstruction in South Texas / Rebecca A. Kosary

After emancipation: Cologne, Texas / Sarah R. Massey

The forging of the African American community in Corpus Christi, Texas, 1865-1900 / Rue Wood

Lola and Leon Houck versus the Southern Pacific Railway Company / Janice L. Sumler-Edmond

The colored trainmen of America: Kingsville black labor and the railroads / Jennifer Borrer

Divided we stand: Jim Crow education in Victoria, Texas, 1901-1966 / Edward Byerly

Maury Maverick and racial politics in San Antonio, Texas, 1938-1941 / Judith Kaaz Doyle

The Houston Eagles and the end of the Negro leagues / Rob Fink

Corpus Christi's Galvan Ballroom: music and multiculturalism in the 1950s / David Louzon

Racial change on the southern periphery: the case of San Antonio, Texas, 1960-1965 / Robert A. Goldberg

"A pearl of great price": socio-literary activism in the life and writings of Olga Samples Davis / Jeanette Nyda Passty

Blacks in South Texas: selected bibliography / Bruce A. Glasrud.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781603442282

1603442286

9781603442299

1603442294

OCLC:

670324886