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Blood oranges: Citriculture, colonialism, and the making of Anglo-American identity in the Lower Rio Grande Valley borderlands during the twentieth century.

机译：血橙：二十世纪，在下里奥格兰德河谷边境地区，柠檬文化，殖民主义和英裔美国人的身份得以建立。

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This dissertation argues that Texas' Lower Rio Grande Valley borderlands were an internal colony of the Anglo-American dominated United States throughout the twentieth century. The relationships between Anglo Americans and ethnic Mexicans in the Valley during the twentieth century closely resemble the relationships between colonizers and colonized people throughout world history. I utilize the history of the Valley's citrus industry, which rose to prominence in the 1920s and attracted many newcomer growers and ethnic-Mexican laborers to the region, as an organizing tool to explain the Valley's colonization in a concise, digestible manner. Understanding Anglo-Mexican relations in the Valley through the lens of colonialism is important, I argue, because it explains the crippling poverty and rampant racial oppression under which countless thousands of Mexicans and Mexican Americans struggled in the Valley throughout the twentieth century. I will also display the essential component that the nearby modern borderline played in creating the Lower Rio Grande Valley's internal colony. Ethnic Mexicans in the Valley ranked among the poorest, unhealthiest and least educated group of people through the latter part of the twentieth century. This dissertation will explain how Anglo Americans conquered and colonized the Valley, which, despite being in Texas, was previously a non-Euroamerican space. The Valley should be considered, I suggest, a Mexican homeland.;I begin by examining the history of the Lower Rio Grande Valley as a long-contested borderlands space caught between imperial powers and modern nation states. I next turn the to rapid colonization of the region by Anglo Americans from the U.S. Midwest, who converted the Valley from a place dominated by ranchland to a commercial-farming empire on the border. Then, I examine how land salesmen helped potential land purchasers develop new identities as modern-day pioneers on a frontier landscape. As the local citrus industry rose to prominence in the post-World War One era, new growers came to the Valley by the thousands, and successfully pushed ethnic Mexicans to the margins of local society. The Great Depression saw the colonial vision of many of the Valley's small citrus growers shattered. Beginning in the mid-1930s, large corporate agribusinesses swooped into the region and successfully adopted the small growers' colonial practices, which included race-based oppression and the marginalization of ethnic Mexicans as harvest laborers. But growers would see themselves challenged from many quarters after World War Two and into the late-1960s, when Mexican Americans began attacking the Lower Rio Grande Valley borderlands' colonial status quo. Nevertheless, colonialism---namely, racialized labor---still persisted in the Valley toward the end of the twentieth century, and continued to effect the lives of many.
机译：本文认为，得克萨斯州下里奥格兰德河谷的边疆地区是整个20世纪美国统治的美国内部殖民地。在整个二十世纪，英美裔美国人与山谷中的墨西哥族裔之间的关系非常类似于殖民者与被殖民者之间的关系。我利用硅谷柑桔产业的历史，该产业在1920年代兴起，吸引了许多新来的种植者和墨西哥裔劳工来到该地区，以此作为一种组织工具，以简明易懂的方式解释了硅谷的殖民化。我认为，通过殖民主义的视角来了解山谷中的英墨关系很重要，因为这解释了整个二十世纪无数的墨西哥人和墨西哥裔美国人在山谷中挣扎的贫困和猖ramp的种族压迫。我还将展示附近的现代边界在创建下里奥格兰德河谷的内部殖民地时发挥的重要作用。整个20世纪后期，山谷中的墨西哥裔墨西哥人跻身于最贫穷，最不健康和教育程度最低的人群之列。本文将解释盎格鲁美国人如何征服并殖民该山谷，尽管该山谷位于德克萨斯州，但以前是非欧洲人的空间。我建议应将山谷视为墨西哥的故乡。我首先考察下里奥格兰德河谷的历史，这是一个历久不衰的边界地区，介于帝国大国与现代民族国家之间。接下来，我将讨论来自美国中西部地区的英裔美国人对该地区的快速殖民，他们将山谷从一个以牧场为主的地区转变为边界上的商业农业帝国。然后，我研究了土地销售人员如何帮助潜在的土地购买者发展新身份，成为前沿领域的现代先驱。在第二次世界大战后，当地柑橘产业兴起，许多种植者来到山谷，并成功地将墨西哥裔推到了当地社会的边缘。大萧条使许多山谷小柑橘种植者的殖民景象崩溃了。从1930年代中期开始，大型公司农业综合企业席卷该地区，并成功地采用了小种植者的殖民做法，其中包括基于种族的压迫和将墨西哥人作为收获劳动者的边缘化。但是在第二次世界大战之后直到1960年代后期，墨西哥裔美国人开始攻击下里奥格兰德河谷边境地区的殖民地现状，种植者们会看到自己在许多方面都面临挑战。尽管如此，殖民主义-即种族化的劳动-仍然在二十世纪末在山谷中持续存在，并继续影响着许多人的生活。

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  • 作者

    Bowman, Timothy Paul.;

  • 作者单位

    Southern Methodist University.;

  • 授予单位 Southern Methodist University.;
  • 学科 History United States.;History Modern.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2011
  • 页码 408 p.
  • 总页数 408
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:45:25

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