| Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston Contributor(s): Beeth, Howard (Editor), Wintz, Cary D. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0890969760 ISBN-13: 9780890969762 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - History | United States - State & Local - General |
| Dewey: 976.423 |
| LCCN: 91039257 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Series: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.09" W x 9.03" (1.12 lbs) 312 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - South - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: An innovative contribution to the growing body of research about urban African-American culture in the South, Black Dixie is the first anthology to track the black experience in a single southern city across the entire slavery/post-slavery continuum. It combines the best previously published scholarship about black Houston and little-known contemporary eyewitness accounts of the city with fresh, unpublished essays by historians and social scientists. Divided into four sections, the book covers a broad range of both time and subjects. The first section analyzes the development of scholarly consciousness and interest in the history of black Houston; slavery in nineteenth-century Houston is covered in the second section; economic and social development in Houston in the era of segregation are looked at in the third section; and segregation, violence, and civil rights in twentieth-century Houston are dealt with in the final section. Collectively, the contents of Black Dixie utilize the full range of primary sources available to scholars studying the black South. These include such traditional material as newspapers and diaries as well as newer techniques involving quantification and statistical analysis. The editors' remarks relate the individual essays to one another as well as placing them within the context of scholarly literature on the subject. Hence Black Dixie will serve both as a resource and as a model for the study of black urban culture in Texas and throughout the South. |