ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a rhetorical and historical analysis of Texas Black Codes enacted during the 1866 Texas' 11th Legislative Session in order to reveal that Texas regulations written during this period surely contributed to the "distrust" that Edgar M. Gregory mentions. Joel D. Aberbach and Jack L. Walker attempted to define political trust in relation to race politics, and discuss the findings from their study, "Political Trust and Racial Ideology". In analyzing regulatory text to evaluate language that evokes trust or distrust between African Americans and government organizations, Aberbach and Walker's attention to "respect" and "good faith" are useful concepts to use as categories in a systematic study of language in regulations. In an exploration of trust and distrust in other marginalized groups, outside of racial and ethnic politics, Trudy Glover argues that feminist theory interprets trust differently than contractual theory.
