The White Scourge Mexicans Blacks and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture or Essentials of Investments

The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture

Author: Neil Foley

In a book that fundamentally challenges our understanding of race in the United States, Neil Foley unravels the complex history of ethnicity in the cotton culture of central Texas. This engrossing narrative, spanning the period from the Civil War through the collapse of tenant farming in the early 1940s, bridges the intellectual chasm between African American and Southern history on one hand and Chicano and Southwestern history on the other. The White Scourge describes a unique borderlands region, where the cultures of the South, West, and Mexico overlap, to provide a deeper understanding of the process of identity formation and to challenge the binary opposition between "black" and "white" that often dominates discussions of American race relations.
In Texas, which by 1890 had become the nation's leading cotton-producing state, the presence of Mexican sharecroppers and farm workers complicated the black-white dyad that shaped rural labor relations in the South. With the transformation of agrarian society into corporate agribusiness, white racial identity began to fracture along class lines, further complicating categories of identity. Foley explores the "fringe of whiteness," an ethno-racial borderlands comprising Mexicans, African Americans, and poor whites, to trace shifting ideologies and power relations. By showing how many different ethnic groups are defined in relation to "whiteness," Foley redefines white racial identity as not simply a pinnacle of status but the complex racial, social, and economic matrix in which power and privilege are shared.
Foley skillfully weaves archival material with oral history interviews, providing a richly detailed view of everyday life inthe Texas cotton culture. Addressing the ways in which historical categories affect the lives of ordinary people, The White Scourge tells the broader story of racial identity in America; at the same time it paints an evocative picture of a unique American region. This truly multiracial narrative touches on many issues central to our understanding of American history: labor and the role of unions, gender roles and their relation to ethnicity, the demise of agrarian whiteness, and the Mexican-American experience.

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Robin D. G. Kelley
Foley deftly brings social, cultural, and political history together in a breathtaking, beautifully writtennarrative. -- Author of Race Rebels

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Essentials of Investments

Author: Zvi Bodi

The market leading Essentials of Investments, 7e by Bodie, Kane and Marcus is an undergraduate textbook on investment analysis, presenting the practical applications of investment theory to convey insights of practical value. The authors have eliminated unnecessary mathematical detail and concentrate on the intuition and insights that will be useful to practitioners throughout their careers as new ideas and challenges emerge from the financial marketplace. Essentials maintains the theme of asset allocation (authors discuss asset pricing and trading then apply these theories to portfolio planning in real-world securities markets that are governed by risk/return relationships).

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A text that treats markets, portfolio theory, securities, options and futures, and investment management within a framework holding that most securities are usually priced appropriately. It is consistent with the Chartered Financial Analyst curriculum, and overviews of the investment process and strategies are modeled after the ICFA outline. This second edition eliminates the formal analysis of utility functions. Appendices offer mathematical tables and sample pages from sources of financial and economic information. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

1	Investments : background and issues	2
2	Financial securities	26
3	Securities markets	58
4	Mutual funds and other investment companies	97
5	Risk and return : past and prologue	126
6	Efficient diversification	161
7	Capital asset pricing and arbitrage pricing theory	203
8	Efficient markets and the behavioral critique	242
9	Bond prices and yields	276
10	Managing bond portfolios	319
11	Macroeconomic and industry analysis	356
12	Equity valuation	387
13	Financial statement analysis	428
14	Options markets	466
15	Option valuation	503
16	Futures markets	537
17	Performance evaluation and active portfolio management	574
18	Globalization and international investing	607
19	Behavioral finance and technical analysis	643
20	Taxes, inflation, and investment strategy	675
21	Investors and the investment process	699