Texan Crucible

How the Irish, Germans, and Czechs Became Anglo

Marian J. Barber (Autor)

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264 Seiten

2026
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
9781477334102 (ISBN)

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A history of European immigrants in Texas and how they redefined racial identity.

While the creation of a Black-White racial binary was foundational to most of the United States, nineteenth-century Texas developed a unique tripartite system that acknowledged the role of individuals of Mexican ancestry in a region that was Spanish, Mexican, and an independent nation before becoming a US (and briefly Confederate) state. Yet this framework was fraught, struggling to accommodate new arrivals from beyond North America, in particular the Irish, Germans, and Czechs. Texan Crucible tells the story of these immigrants and how they became Anglo.

Marian Barber reveals the ways language, religion, alcohol use, and attitudes toward slavery distinguished these newcomers to Texas from those arriving from the eastern United States and how they nevertheless created thriving, influential communities. Their status was shaped by events inside and far beyond Texas, including an 1887 prohibition fight, the Civil War, and two world wars that encouraged them to erase their distinctiveness. As segregation was formally outlawed and civil rights activism grew, understandings of race shifted, cementing these groups’ status as Anglo. Texan Crucible recovers the histories of German, Irish, and Czech immigrants and unveils the social construction of racial difference underpinning Texan identity.

Marian J. Barber has served as director of the Catholic Archives of Texas and associate director of the National History Center of the American Historical Association.

List of Illustrations
Introduction. Coming to Terms
Chapter 1. Coming to Texas
Chapter 2. Roots of Resentment
Chapter 3. A World Turned Upside Down
Chapter 4. The First “Second Battle of the Alamo”
Chapter 5. Superiority versus Separation
Chapter 6. Prelude to War
Chapter 7. No Laughter Down Here
Chapter 8. German Texans in a World at War
Chapter 9. The Tejano Turn
Chapter 10. Resurgence and Transformation: The Interwar Period
Chapter 11. Descent into War—Again
Chapter 12. Postwar Forces for Change
Conclusion. Tragedy and Its Aftermath
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	9.6.2026
Zusatzinfo	11 b&w illus., 3 maps
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781477334102 / 9781477334102
Zustand	Neuware