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Houston bound : culture and color in a Jim Crow city / / Tyina L. Steptoe



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Autore: Steptoe Tyina L. <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Houston bound : culture and color in a Jim Crow city / / Tyina L. Steptoe Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016
©2016
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 p.)
Disciplina: 305.8009764/2350904
Soggetto topico: Minorities - Texas - Houston - Social conditions - 20th century
Music - Social aspects - Texas - Houston - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Houston (Tex.) Emigration and immigration History 20th century
Houston (Tex.) Ethnic relations History 20th century
Houston (Tex.) History 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: 20th century american culture
20th century american history
african americans
american studies
blackness and whiteness
blues
city life
civic
creole americans
crowded cities
cultural history
democracy
first world war
great migration
history
houston
immigration
jazz
jim crow laws
jim crow
mexican americans
migrants
migration history
migration
music
race as a social construct
racial categories
racism and prejudice
racism in america
social history
united states of america
urban areas
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: When Worlds Collide -- Part one -- Part two -- Part three -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 blues and jazz scenes in the 1920's as well as the hybrid forms of these genres that arose when migrants forged shared social space and carved out new communities and politics. This interdisciplinary book provides both an innovative historiography about migration and immigration in the twentieth century and a critical examination of a city located in the former Confederacy.
Titolo autorizzato: Houston bound  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-520-95853-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807344003321
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Serie: American crossroads ; ; 41.