Abstract
Blood Oranges: Colonialism and Agriculture in the South Texas Borderlands. By Timothy Paul Bowman. Foreword by Sterling Evans. (College Station: Texas A&M Press, 2016. Ix + 266 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $43.00) Using the framework of internal colonization, Timothy Paul Bowman explains the dramatic growth of agriculture in South Texas. In the early decades of the 20th century, emigrants to the region from the Midwest transformed sparsely populated ranch land in to citrus groves. This development created an internal caste system that subjugated the local Mexican American and Mexican populations for decades, and altered the demographics, politics, and environment of the region. The book opens with background on the region as it transitioned from Mexican … megan.birk{at}utrgv.edu
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