White Metropolis

Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001

By: Michael Phillips

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Paperback | 15 January 2006

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From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical reality? In this book, Michael Phillips delves deeply into Dallas's racial and religious past and uncovers a complicated history of resistance, collaboration, and assimilation between the city's African American, Mexican American, and Jewish communities and its white power elite. Exploring more than 150 years of Dallas history, Phillips reveals how white business leaders created both a white racial identity and a Southwestern regional identity that excluded African Americans from power and required Mexican Americans and Jews to adopt Anglo-Saxon norms to achieve what limited positions of power they held. He also demonstrates how the concept of whiteness kept these groups from allying with each other, and with working- and middle-class whites, to build a greater power base and end elite control of the city.Comparing the Dallas racial experience with that of Houston and Atlanta, Phillips identifies how Dallas fits into regional patterns of race relations and illuminates the unique forces that have kept its racial history hidden until the publication of this book.

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"This is an important contribution to the study of race relations, Texas history, southern history, and Jewish history... As Phillips persuasively argues, Dallas is almost absurdly understudied." Benjamin Heber Johnson, Southern Methodist University, author of Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Prologue: Through a Glass Darkly: Memory, Race, and Region in Dallas, Texas	p. 1
The Music of Cracking Necks: Dallas Civilization and Its Discontents	p. 18
True to Dixie and to Moses: Yankees, White Trash, Jews, and the Lost Cause	p. 36
The Great White Plague: Whiteness, Culture, and the Unmaking of the Dallas Working Class	p. 57
Consequences of Powerlessness: Whiteness as Class Politics	p. 77
Water Force: Resisting White Supremacy under Jim Crow	p. 103
White Like Me: Mexican Americans, Jews, and the Elusive Politics of Identity	p. 121
A Blight and a Sin: Segregation, the Kennedy Assassination, and the Wreckage of Whiteness	p. 149
Afterword	p. 179
Notes	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 233
Index	p. 257
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Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001

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