Reaping a Greater Harvest African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas |
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| Author:
| Reid, Debra A. |
| Series title: | Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas a&M University-Commerce Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-58544-571-4 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 2007 |
| Publisher: | Texas A&M University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $57.00 |
Book Description:
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Spotlights the hierarchies of class and gender within the extension service. This book demonstrates how the system that enabled the agents and the farmers they served to wield some political influence also kept them dependent on a racialized state that systematically discriminated against them and maintained the white-dominated southern landscape.
Spotlights the hierarchies of class and gender within the extension service. This book demonstrates how the system that enabled the agents and the farmers they served to wield some political influence also kept them dependent on a racialized state that systematically discriminated against them and maintained the white-dominated southern landscape.