You will never be one of us a teacher, a Texas town, and the rural roots of radical conservatism

Defining Conservatism in the Texas Panhandle -- Coming of Age in the Texas Panhandle: The Civil Rights Era in Rural America -- The Teacher -- Building a Civil Rights Case in the Texas Panhandle -- Mexican Migrant Labor, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Community Guardianism inHereford, Texas...

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1. Verfasser: Bowman, Timothy Paul (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Norman University of Oklahoma Press 2022
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Zusammenfassung:Defining Conservatism in the Texas Panhandle -- Coming of Age in the Texas Panhandle: The Civil Rights Era in Rural America -- The Teacher -- Building a Civil Rights Case in the Texas Panhandle -- Mexican Migrant Labor, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Community Guardianism inHereford, Texas -- "There Will Be Not Winners Down the Line": Prosecuting a Civil Rights Case in the TexasPanhandle -- Righting Wrongs and Wronging Rights: The Culture Wars on Trial in the Texas Panhandle -- Conclusion: Hereford and the Two Americas
"Explores the sources and depths of rural and small-town America's reactionary political culture during the latter half of the twentieth century by describing how a young high school teacher came to be fired by the school district in Hereford, Texas, in 1975 for founding a chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union in a historically white-majority town with a growing Mexican American population"--
Beschreibung:viii, 223 Seiten
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ISBN:9780806190389