The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast (Record no. 6729)
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| control field | DLC |
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| fixed length control field | 220104s2022 nyua b 001 0 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 2021060150 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781984880123 |
| Qualifying information | (hardcover) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| Qualifying information | (ebook) |
| Canceled/invalid ISBN | 9781984880130 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER | |
| System control number | (OCoLC)1291601252 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | TnLvILS |
| Description conventions | rda |
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| -- | pcc |
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| -- | n-us-tx |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HS2330.K63 |
| Item number | J63 2022 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 322.4/209764 |
| Edition number | 23 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Johnson, Kirk W., |
| Relator term | author. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Kirk Wallace Johnson. |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | [New York] : |
| -- | Viking, |
| -- | [2022] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xii, 363 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm |
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| -- | volume |
| -- | nc |
| -- | rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - | |
| -- | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster-a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman's relentless battle for environmental justice. By the late 1970s, the fishermen of the Texas Gulf Coast were struggling. The bays that had sustained generations of shrimpers and crabbers before them were being poisoned by nearby petrochemical plants, oil spills, pesticides, and concrete. But as their nets came up light, the white shrimpers could only see one culprit: the small but growing number of newly resettled Vietnamese refugees who had recently started fishing. Turf was claimed. Guns were flashed. Threats were made. After a white crabber was killed by a young Vietnamese refugee in self-defense, the situation became a tinderbox primed to explode, and the Grand Dragon of the Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan saw an opportunity to stoke the fishermen's rage and prejudices. At a massive Klan rally near Galveston Bay one night in 1981, he strode over to an old boat graffitied with the words U.S.S. VIET CONG, torch in hand, and issued a ninety-day deadline for the refugees to leave or else "it's going to be a helluva lot more violent than Vietnam!" The white fishermen roared as the boat burned, convinced that if they could drive these newcomers from the coast, everything would return to normal. A shocking campaign of violence ensued, marked by burning crosses, conspiracy theories, death threats, torched boats, and heavily armed Klansmen patrolling Galveston Bay. The Vietnamese were on the brink of fleeing, until a charismatic leader in their community, a highly decorated colonel, convinced them to stand their ground by entrusting their fate with the Constitution. Drawing upon a trove of never-before-published material, including FBI and ATF records, unprecedented access to case files, and scores of firsthand interviews with Klansmen, shrimpers, law enforcement, environmental activists, lawyers, perpetrators and victims, Johnson uncovers secrets and secures confessions to crimes that went unsolved for more than forty years. This explosive investigation of a forgotten story, years in the making, ultimately leads Johnson to the doorstep of the one woman who could see clearly enough to recognize the true threat to the bays-and who now represents the fishermen's last hope"-- |
| Assigning source | Provided by publisher. |
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| -- | Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) |
| -- | History |
| -- | 20th century. |
| -- | Texas |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Refugees |
| General subdivision | Social conditions |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| Geographic subdivision | Texas |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Vietnamese |
| General subdivision | Crimes against |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| Geographic subdivision | Texas |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Fisheries |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| Geographic subdivision | Texas |
| 776 08 - | |
| -- | Johnson, Kirk W. |
| -- | [New York] : Viking, [2022] |
| -- | Online version: |
| -- | Fishermen and the dragon |
| -- | (DLC) 2021060151 |
| -- | 9781984880130 |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Jones Public Library | Jones Public Library | 08/28/2025 | 29.00 | 322.42 JOH | 3370000086091 | 08/28/2025 | 08/28/2025 | Main |