Continental Crossroads

by Truett, Samuel; Young, Elliott

• ISBN13: 9780822333531
• ISBN10: 0822333538
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"Using new approaches and demonstrating the results of extensive research into the archives of both Mexico and the United States, this pathbreaking book provides a new perspective on our common frontier legacies as well as surprising borderland stories involving Chinese immigrants and African American colonizers, transnational identities, and borderland 'body politics.' These highly readable original essays comprise a new history of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, one that is enhanced by poignant human stories. This seminal volume should stimulate new studies of U.S.-Mexico border relations in the years to come. Editors Samuel Truett and Elliott Young are to be congratulated on their accomplishment."--Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University

Table of Contents

Foreword
DAVID J. WEBER,	ix
Acknowledgments,	xiii
Introduction
SAMUEL TRUETT AND ELLIOTT YOUNG
Making Transnational History: Nations, Regions, and Borderlands,	1	(34)
Frontier Legacies
RAUL RAMOS
Finding the Balance: Bexar in Mexican/Indian Relations,	35	(32)
LOUISE PUBOLS
Fathers of the Pueblo: Patriarchy and Power in Mexican California, 1800-1880,	67	(30)
Borderland Stories
BARBARA O. REYES
Race, Agency, and Memory in a Baja California Mission,	97	(24)
ANDRES RESENDEZ
An Expedition and Its Many Tales,	121	(30)
ELLIOTT YOUNG
Imagining Alternative Modernities: Ignacio Martinez's Travel Narratives,	151	(32)
Transnational Identities
GRACE PENA DELGADO
At Exclusion's Southern Gate: Changing Categories of Race and Class among Chinese Fronterizos, 1882-1904,	183	(26)
KARL JACOBY
Between North and South: The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis and the African American Colony of 1895,	209	(32)
SAMUEL TRUETT
Transnational Warrior: Emilio Kosterlitzky and the Transformation of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1873-1928,	241	(32)
Body Politics
BENJAMIN JOHNSON
The Plan de San Diego Uprising and the Making of the Modern Texas-Mexican Borderlands,	273	(26)
ALEXANDRA MINNA STERN
Nationalism on the Line: Masculinity, Race, and the Creation of the U.S. Border Patrol, 1910-1940,	299
Conclusion
SAMUEL TRUETT AND ELLIOTT YOUNG
Borderlands Unbound,	325	(4)
Contributors,	329	(2)
Index,	331