Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction
5. Chapter 1 • “Where Uncle Sam Meets Mexico” Narratives of Frontier and Progress in Early Twentieth-Century South Texas 17
6. Chapter 2 • The Social Space of Agriculture 48
7. Chapter 2 • The Social Space of Agriculture 81
8. Chapter 4 • Exploitative Villains or Community Leaders? Agricultural Labor Contractors, the State, and Control over Worker Mobility 114
9. Chapter 5 • El Paso/The Passage The 1948 El Paso Incident and the Politics of Mobility 138
10. Chapter 6 • The High Price of Immigration Politics during the 1950s 174
11. Epilogue 202
12. Notes 209
13. Bibliography 252
14. Index 263