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Dissertation Information for William Dean Carrigan

NAME:
- William Dean Carrigan

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (1999)

ADVISORS:
- Dan T. Carter

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- James L Roark
- Leroy Davis Jr
- Michael A. Bellesiles

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Between South and West: Race, violence, and power in central Texas, 1836-1916

Abstract: This study of nineteenth and early twentieth century central Texas bridges southern and western history to answer a number of broad questions about race, violence, and power in the United States Southwest. Focusing on the complicated struggle for power between a slaveholding and mercantile elite, small landholders, poor farmers, African Americans, Native Americans, and Mexican Americans, this dissertation seeks to understand how and why central Texas became one of the most violent regions in America between 1836 and 1916. During that period, central Texas witnessed countless bloody battles between Anglos and Indians, two wars with Mexico, numerous outbreaks of outlaw activity, frequent episodes of vigilantism, and dozens of ghastly acts of mob violence. Although the political and economic needs of creating a cotton-producing society surely underlay these conflicts, the perpetrators of central Texas\' violence rarely justified their actions on the basis of political economy. Instead, they claimed that their violent behavior was necessary to protect their households from the attacks of Indian abductors, \"mongrel\" Mexican soldiers, black rapists, and \"desperate\" white men. Using appeals to \"white\" racial supremacy, whites in central Texas constructed a culture of violence that allowed them to gain and preserve their political and economic power.

MPACT Scores for William Dean Carrigan

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