Description
Book SynopsisThe first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.
Trade ReviewAn ambitious work,
White Metropolis deserves attention from historians interested in the history of Texas, urban studies, and southern culture. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Through a Glass Darkly: Memory, Race, and Region in Dallas, Texas
- 1. The Music of Cracking Necks: Dallas Civilization and Its Discontents
- 2. True to Dixie and to Moses: Yankees, White Trash, Jews, and the Lost Cause
- 3. The Great White Plague: Whiteness, Culture, and the Unmaking of the Dallas Working Class
- 4. Consequences of Powerlessness: Whiteness as Class Politics
- 5. Water Force: Resisting White Supremacy under Jim Crow
- 6. White Like Me: Mexican Americans, Jews, and the Elusive Politics of Identity
- 7. A Blight and a Sin: Segregation, the Kennedy Assassination, and the Wreckage of Whiteness
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
