White metropolis race, ethnicity, and religion in Dallas, 1841-2001 /

Phillips, Michael, 1960-

White metropolis race, ethnicity, and religion in Dallas, 1841-2001 / [electronic resource] : by Michael Phillips. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006. - ix, 267 p., 20 p. of plates : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-255) and index.

Through a glass darkly : memory, race, and region in Dallas, Texas -- The music of cracking necks : Dallas civilization and its discontents -- True to Dixie and to Moses : Yankees, White trash, Jews, and the lost cause -- The great White plague : whiteness, culture, and the unmaking of the Dallas working class -- Consequences of powerlessness : whiteness as class politics -- Water force : resisting White supremacy under Jim Crow -- White like me : Mexican Americans, Jews, and the elusive politics of identity -- A blight and a sin : segregation, the Kennedy assassination, and the wreckage of whiteness.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Dallas (Tex.)--Race relations--History.
Dallas (Tex.)--Ethnic relations--History.


Electronic books.

F394.D219 / A25 2006

305.8/009764/2812