ANTH 4701 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: John Neely Bryan, Dallas Herald, Upland South
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Chapter 1 - the music of cracking necks: dallas civilization and its. The anglo-saxon majority participated, at least theoretically, in what sociologist howard. Winant calls a herrenvolk democracy, a nominally free society in which political participation depends on skin color or ethnicity. The constitution of the texas republic (1836) specifically denied citizenship to african. The texas legislature (1856) defined mixed race children as persons of color. Economic insecurity led the earliest dallasites to embrace violence as a means of survival: hedgecoxe war. Alexander cockrell (dallas"s first capitalist and illiterate kentuckian) built riches on failures of founder john neely bryan. Illegal for free blacks to immigrate to tx: slaveholders constituted the most grossly overrepresented constituency in tx politics from the city to the statewide level. Instigated panic about a slave revolt inspired by abolitionist outsiders. masterminds of the revolt blount and mckinney later expelled from. Committee of vigilance: as a result of the burning of downtown dallas.
