Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822333890)

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 B疵bara Gandiaga, Mexican traveler Ignacio Mart匤ez, 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 Pe Delgado, Karl Jacoby, Benjamin Johnson, Louise Pubols, Ra伃 Ramos, Andr駸 Res駭dez, B疵bara O. Reyes, Alexandra Minna Stern, Samuel Truett, Elliott Young

Author: Samuel Truett
ISBN-10: 0822333899
ISBN-13: 9780822333890
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2004
Pages: 344
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.32w x 0.86d