Truett / Young / Joseph Continental Crossroads

Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8632-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 364 Seiten

Reihe: American Encounters/Global Interactions

Essays explore a transnational vision of the U.S./Mexico borderlands, and analyze this region’s race, class, and gender inequalities in historical perspective.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Truett, Samuel

Young, Elliott

Joseph, Gilbert M.

Rosenberg, Emily S.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Weber, David J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / David J. Weber ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction: Making Transnational History: Nations, Regions, and Borderlands / Samuel Truett and 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 and Elliott Young 325

Contributors 329

Index 331

Über Autor(innen)

Samuel Truett is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.Elliott Young is Associate Professor of History at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon; he is the author of Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border, published by Duke University Press.