{"id":41816,"date":"2015-12-21T01:56:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T01:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41816"},"modified":"2016-07-20T19:32:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T19:32:08","slug":"houston-bound-culture-and-color-in-a-jim-crow-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41816","title":{"rendered":"Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520282582\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of California Press<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 2015<br \/>\n320 pages<br \/>\nHardback ISBN: 9780520282575<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780520282582<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/history.arizona.edu\/user\/tyina-steptoe\" target=\"_blank\">Tyina Steptoe<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Arizona<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520282582\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/img\/covers\/isbn13\/9780520282582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beginning after <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/World_War_I\" target=\"_blank\">World War I<\/a> and continuing throughout the twentieth century, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Houston\" target=\"_blank\">Houston<\/a> was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. <em>Houston Bound<\/em> draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anglo\" target=\"_blank\">Anglo<\/a> attempts to fix racial categories through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow laws<\/a>, converging migrations\u2014particularly those of Mexicans and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana_Creole_people\" target=\"_blank\">Creoles<\/a>\u2014complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. This migration history is also a story about music and sound, tracing the emergence of Houston&#8217;s blues and jazz scenes in the 1920s as well as the hybrid forms of these genres\u2014like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zydeco\" target=\"_blank\">zydeco<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tejano_music\" target=\"_blank\">Tejano soul<\/a>\u2014that arose when migrants forged shared social space and carved out new communities and politics. Houston&#8217;s location on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gulf_Coast_of_the_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast<\/a>, poised between the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">American South<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_United_States\" target=\"_blank\">West<\/a>, yields a particularly rich examination of how the histories of colonization, slavery, and segregation produced divergent ways of thinking about race.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_of_America\" target=\"_blank\">Confederacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City University of California Press November 2015 320 pages Hardback ISBN: 9780520282575 Paperback ISBN: 9780520282582 Tyina Steptoe, Assistant Professor of History University of Arizona Beginning after World War I and continuing throughout the twentieth century, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,11,459,14646,8,17,1249,20],"tags":[20467,20466,1284],"class_list":["post-41816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-books","category-history","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-texas","category-usa","tag-houston","tag-tyina-steptoe","tag-university-of-california-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41817,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41816\/revisions\/41817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}