Border dilemmas : racial and national uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mora, Anthony P., 1974-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Mexican Americans > New Mexico > Mesilla. Mexican Americans > New Mexico > Las Cruces. Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic relations. Mexican-American Border Region > History.

Table of Contents:

Preoccupied America : competing ideas about race and nation in the United States and Mexico, 1821-1851
"Yankilandia" and "prairie-dog villages" : making sense of race and nation at the local level, 1850-1875
"Enemigos de la Iglesia católica y por consiguiente de los ciudadanos mexicanos" : race, nation, and the meaning of sacred place
"Las mujeres americanas están en todo? : gender, race, and regeneration, 1848-1912
"It must never be forgotten this is New and not old Mexico" : local space in Euro-American knowledge and practice, 1880-1912
"New Mexico for New Mexicans!" : race and the redefinition of regional identity for Mexicans, 1880-1912.