White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001

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Winner, T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission, 2007

From the nineteenth century until these days, the power brokers of Dallas have all the time portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has have shyed away from the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical reality? On this book, Michael Phillips delves deeply into Dallas’s racial and spiritual 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 succeed in what limited positions of power they held. He also demonstrates how the idea that of whiteness kept these groups from allying with each and every other, and with working- and middle-class whites, to build a better power base and end elite keep an eye on 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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