Continental crossroads : remapping U.S.-Mexico borderlands history / edited by Samuel Truett and Elliott Young.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Truett, Samuel, 1966-

Young, Elliott, 1967-

William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies.

Series:

American encounters/global interactions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

History.

Mexican-American Border Region--Historiography.

Mexican-American Border Region.

Mexican-American Border Region--Social conditions.

Mexican-American Border Region--Ethnic relations.

Ethnicity--Mexican-American Border Region--History.

United States--Relations--Mexico.

United States.

Relations.

Mexico.

Mexico--Relations--United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Summary:

The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. While national histories have tended to overlook these complex connections, Continental Crossroads rewrites borderlands history by focusing on them. The contributors to this collection chronicle the transnational processes that bound Mexico and the United States together during the borderlands' formative era-from the early nineteenth century into the 1940s.

Contents:

Introduction: Making Transnational History: Nations, Regions, and Borderlands / Samuel Truett, Elliott Young 1

Frontier Legacies

Finding the Balance: Bexar in Mexican/Indian Relations / Raul Ramos 35

Fathers of the Pueblo: Patriarchy and Power in Mexican California, 1800-1880 / Louise Pubols 67

Borderland Stories

Race, Agency, and Memory in a Baja California Mission / Barbara O. Reyes 97

An Expedition and Its Many Tales / Andres Resendez 121

Imagining Alternative Modernities: Ignacio Martinez's Travel Narratives / Elliott Young 151

Transnational Identities

At Exclusion's Southern Gate: Changing Categories of Race and Class among Chinese Fronterizos, 1882-1904 / Grace Pena Delgado 183

Between North and South: The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis and the African American Colony of 1895 / Karl Jacoby 209

Transnational Warrior: Emilio Kosterlitzky and the Transformation of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1873-1928 / Samuel Truett 241

Body Politics

The Plan de San Diego Uprising and the Making of the Modern Texas-Mexican Borderlands / Benjamin Johnson 273

Nationalism on the Line: Masculinity, Race, and the Creation of the U.S. Border Patrol, 1910-1940 / Alexandra Minna Stern 299

Conclusion: Borderlands Unbound / Samuel Truett, Elliott Young 325.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University."

ISBN:

0822333538

0822333899

OCLC:

54536786