| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.4

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Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas. By Debra A. Reid. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xxxii + 295 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $39.95.)

In Reaping a Greater Harvest, Debra Reid offers a provocative analysis of Jim Crow's impact on rural reform in Texas. Reid's work is thoroughly researched and well written. The chapters are engaging and organized around themes that reveal particular Texan African American rural experiences and expressions during the late-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. Using various methodological approaches, Reid's analysis reveals how extension work served a specific purpose; it allowed hypocritical notions of democracy to function paradoxically for whites' benefit. Thus, her findings primarily show that rural black reformers, despite their success, were not able to convince whites they were capable of functioning and surviving outside of established paternalistic norms. Yet, as Reid capably illustrates, some whites helped and accepted the work of rural black reformers as long as they did not challenge the status quo. Jim Crow in Texas, therefore, was no different than his brothers in other rural and urban communities of the South, North, East, and West.

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