Houston Bound Material:Paperback Taking the measure of the

Taking the measure of the tradition in a single indispensable volume

and it needs to be talked about

Darren has to battle centuries-old suspicions and prejudices

Kelly Starling Lyons and Keith Mallett tell a story about the generations of families who gained hope and strength from the song’s inspiring words

the poets and thinkers who have influenced her

Houston Bound Material:Paperback Taking the measure of theBeginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black and white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. Houston Bound draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrationsparticularly those of Mexicans and Creolescomplicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different