Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION. Local Borders: Mexicans’ Uncertain Role in the United States 1
5. CHAPTER 1. Preoccupied America: Competing Ideas about Race and Nation in the United States and Mexico, 1821–1851 23
6. CHAPTER 2. ‘‘Yankilandia’’ and ‘‘Prairie-Dog Villages’’: Making Sense of Race and Nation at the Local Level, 1850–1875 66
7. CHAPTER 3. ‘‘Enemigos de la Iglesia Católica y por consiguiente de los ciudadanos Mexicanos’’: Race, Nation, and the Meaning of Sacred Place 103
8. CHAPTER 4. ‘‘Las mujeres Americanas están en todo’’: Gender, Race, and Regeneration, 1848–1912 135
9. CHAPTER 5. ‘‘It Must Never Be Forgotten This Is New and Not Old Mexico’’: Local Space in Euro-American Knowledge and Practice, 1880–1912 172
10. CHAPTER 6. ‘‘New Mexico for New Mexicans!’’: Race and the Redefinition of Regional Identity for Mexicans, 1880–1912 223
11. EPILOGUE. ‘‘Neath the Star Spangled Banner’’: Multiculturalism and the Taxonomic State 274
12. NOTES 291
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 345
14. INDEX 367