Continental Crossroads

Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History

Samuel Truett, Elliott Young, Samuel Truett, Elliott Young, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN: 9780822333890, 9780822333531
• eBook ISBN: 9780822386322
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Mexican History
• Index: History

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

The U.S.-Mexico borderlands have long supported a web of relationships that transcend the U.S. and Mexican nations. Yet national histories usually overlook these complex connections. Continental Crossroads rediscovers this forgotten terrain, laying the foundations for a new borderlands history at the crossroads of Chicano/a, Latin American, and U.S. history. Drawing on the historiographies and archives of both the U.S. and Mexico, the authors chronicle the transnational processes that bound both nations together between the early nineteenth century and the 1940s, the formative era of borderlands history.

A new generation of borderlands historians examines a wide range of topics in frontier and post-frontier contexts. The contributors explore how ethnic, racial, and gender relations shifted as a former frontier became the borderlands. They look at the rise of new imagined communities and border literary traditions through the eyes of Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and Indians, and recover transnational border narratives and experiences of African Americans, Chinese, and Europeans. They also show how surveillance and resistance in the borderlands inflected the "body politics" of gender, race, and nation. Native heroine Bárbara Gandiaga, Mexican traveler Ignacio Martínez, Kiowa warrior Sloping Hair, African American colonist William H. Ellis, Chinese merchant Lee Sing, and a diverse cast of politicos and subalterns, gendarmes and patrolmen, and insurrectos and exiles add transnational drama to the formerly divided worlds of Mexican and U.S. history.

Contributors. Grace Peña Delgado, Karl Jacoby, Benjamin Johnson, Louise Pubols, Raúl Ramos, Andrés Reséndez, Bárbara O. Reyes, Alexandra Minna Stern, Samuel Truett, Elliott Young

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword by David J. Weber
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Samuel Truett and Elliott Young: Making Transnational History: Nations, Regions, and Borderlands
• Frontier Legacies
• Raul Ramos: Finding the Balance: Bexar in Mexican/Indian Relations
• Louise Pubols: Fathers of the Pueblo: Patriarchy and Power in Mexican California, 1800-1880
• Borderland Stories
• Barbara O. Reyes: Race, Agency, and Memory in a Baja California Mission
• Andres Resendez: An Expedition and Its Many Tales
• Elliott Young: Imagining Alternative Modemities: Ignacio Martinex's Travel Narratives
• Transnational Identites
• Grace Pena Delgado: At Exclusion's Southern Gate: Changing Categories of Race and Class among Chinese "Frontierizos", 1882-1904
• Karl Jacoby: Between North and South: The Alternative Borderlands of William H. Ellis and the African American Colony of 1895
• Samuel Truett: Transnational Warrior: Emilio Kosterlitzky and the Transformation of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1873-1928
• Body Politics
• Benjamin Johnson: The Plan de San Diego Uprising and the Making of the Modern Texas-Mexican Borderlands
• Alexandra Minna Stern: Nationalism on the Line: Masculinity, Race, and the Creation of the U.S. Border Patrol, 1910-1940
• Conclusion: Samuel Truett and Elliott Young: Borderland Unbound
• Contributors
• Index