Garna L Christian

Biographic Data

ID1037533
NAMEGarna L Christian
GIVEN NAMESGarna L
FAMILY NAMEChristian
SIGNATURECHRISTIAN G L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Houston - Downtown
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS15
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT15
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX0

  • Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly: Country Music's Struggle for Respectability, 1939-1954

    Garna L Christian, Jeffrey J LangeARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2005

    Today, country music enjoys a national fan base that transcends both economic and social boundaries. Sixty years ago, however, it was primarily the music of rural, working-class whites living in the South and was perceived by many Americans as hillbilly music. In Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly, Jeffrey J. Lange examines the 1940s and early 1950s as the most crucial period in country music's transformation from a rural, southern folk art form …

  • Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur and Civic Leader, 1905-1965

    Garna L Christian, Thomas H KreneckARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2003

    In American Odyssey, Thomas H. Kreneck not only traces the influential life of Houston entrepreneur and civic leader Felix Tijerina as an individual but illustrates how Tijerina reflected many trends in Mexican American development during the decades he lived, years that were crucial for the Hispanic community today. Kreneck outlines a pattern of identity and assimilation that has been traced in bold, broader terms by other scholars, who have cal…

  • The U.S. Army and the Texas Frontier Economy, 1845-1900

    Garna L Christian, Thomas T SmithARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2001

  • The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West

    Garna L Christian, Michael L TateARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West. By Michael L. Tate. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xx, 454 pp. $34.95, ISBN O-8061-3173-X.) Get access Garna L. Christian Garna L. Christian University of Houston—Downtown, Houston, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1497–1498, https://doi.org/10.2307/2674794 …

  • In Struggle against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the Naacp, 1900-1957

    Garna L Christian, Merline PitreARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2000

  • The Senator and the Sharecropper's Son: Exoneration of the Brownsville Soldiers

    Garna L Christian, John D WeaverARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1998

  • Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917.

    Marvin Fletcher, Marvin E Fletcher et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1997

    In Jim Crow Texas, black Regular Army units returning victoriously from Cuba and the Philippines collided head-on with local segregation and bigotry. As the soldiers' expectations of dignity and respect met with racial restrictions and indignities from civilian communities, a series of violent episodes erupted. Although confrontations also occurred elsewhere, the most notorious were in Texas, beginning with an 1899 clash between white lawmen in T…

  • Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917

    Ronald L Spiller, Garna L ChristianARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly1996

  • Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917

    Shawn Lay, Garna L ChristianARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1996

  • The Texas Military Experience: From the Texas Revolution through World War II

    Garna L Christian, Joseph G Dawson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1996

  • Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas 1899-1917

    Brenda L Moore, Garna L ChristianARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1996

  • Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917

    Monroe Billington, Garna L ChristianARTICLEJournal of American History1996

    Journal Article Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899–1917. By Garna L. Christian. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. xvi, 223 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-89096-637-0.) Get access Monroe Billington Monroe Billington New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 4, March 1996, Pages 1593–1594, https://doi.org/10.230…

  • Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899-1917

    Elaine C Everly, Garna L ChristianARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1996

    Journal Article Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899–1917 Get access Black Soldiers in Jim Crow Texas, 1899–1917. By Christian Garna L.. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1995. xvi + 223 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.) Elaine C. Everly Elaine C. Everly National Archives Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pag…

  • The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836

    Garna L Christian, Paul D LackARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1993

    Journal Article The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835–1836 Get access The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835–1836. By Lack Paul D.. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1992. xxv + 332 pp. Maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographical essay, index. $39.50.) Garna L. Christian Garna L. Christian University of Houston-Downtown Search for other works by this author on: …

  • The Texas-Mexican Conjunto: History of a Working-Class Music

    Garna L Christian, Manuel H PenaARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1986