| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3 | The History Cooperative

*White Metropolis: Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841–2001.* By Michael Phillips. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. xxxii + 267 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $19.95, paper.)
Many Texans born after the 1980s would be astounded by ethnic prejudices evident throughout Michael Phillips well written and researched study of race, ethnicity, and religion in Dallas from 1841 to the end of the twentieth century. Phillips's central thesis is that the "obsessively image-conscious" Dallas "elites feared that a conflict-marred past filled with class and racial strife represented a dangerous model for the future," which caused the white elite to try to make the "community into a laboratory of forgetfulness" (p. 3). The goal of those white elites was to link success "with a white identity."	1
"Since Dallas' founding in the 1840s, the uncertain promise of whiteness made to Mexican Americans, Jews, and working-class Anglos proved a powerful tool of division, effectively blocking coalitions for social justice" (pp. 7–8). Whiteness, the mythical symbol of success, did not include being black, but rather meant "faith in rule by the wealthy, certitude that competition and inequality arose from nature, and rejection of an activist government that redistricted political or economic power" (p. 12).	. . .

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