Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, The Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas

Debra A. Reid
Hardcover, 194 pages
ISBN: 978-1-58544-571-4

Reid spotlights hierarchies of class and gender within the agriculture extension service. Her analysis demostrates how the same system that enabled the agents and the farmers they served to wield some political influence also kept them dependent on a racialized state that undervalued their contributions, co-opted their ideas, manipulated their appointments, discriminated against them, and maintained the white-dominated southern landscape.