Red Populism? T. A. Bland, Agrarian Radicalism, and the Debate over the Dawes Act

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. I. AGRARIAN LEGACIES
7. Red Populism? T. A. Bland, Agrarian Radicalism, and the Debate over the Dawes Act 15
8. African Americans, Community Building, and the Role of the State in Rural Reform in Texas, 1890s-1930 38
9. Land Monopoly, Agribusiness, and the State: Discovering the Family Farm in Twentieth-Century California 66
10. II. THE USES OF THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF THE DISPOSSESSED
11. The State of Nature. Country Folk, Conservationists, and Criminals at Yellowstone National Park, 1872-1908 91
12. Fighting for Child Health: Race, Birth Control, and the State in the Jim Crow South 113
13. "In America Life Is Given Away": Jamaican Farmworkers and the Making of Agricultural Immigration Policy 134
14. Ernesto Galarza, Mexican Immigration, and Farm Labor Organizing in Postwar California 161
15. III. CONSTRUCTING THE MODERN STATE
16. Accounting for Change: Farmers and the Modernizing State 189
17. Agrarian Intellectuals in a Democratizing State: A Collective Biography of USDA Leaders in the Intended New Deal 213
18. An "Enviable Tradition" of Patriarchy: New Deal Investigations of Women's Work in the Amish Farm Family 240
19. Remaking Red Bird: Isolation and the War on Poverty in a Rural Appalachian Locality 258
20. IV. CONTEMPORARY RURAL POLITICS
21. Call of the Mild: Colorado Ski Resorts and the Politics of Rural Tourism 281
22. From the Heartland to Seattle: The Family Farm Movement of the 1980s and the Legacy of Agrarian State Building 304
23. Notes on Contributors 327
24. Index 331