NINE Skirting the Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I Emerging Borders: Policing Boundaries in the Nineteenth Century
7. ONE Defining the Acceptable Bounds of Deception 27
8. TWO Dominance in an Imagined Border 43
9. THREE A Border without Guards 60
10. PART II Solidifying States, Testing Boundaries
11. FOUR To Protect and Police 79
12. FIVE Enforcing US Immigration Laws at the US-Canada Border, 1891–1940 96
13. SIX The Roots of the Border Patrol 115
14. SEVEN Home Guard 129
15. PART III Building and Resisting a Prohibition Apparatus
16. EIGHT Policing Peyote Country in the Early Twentieth Century 147
17. NINE Skirting the Law 163
18. TEN Building a Villain/Hero Binary 179
19. PART IV Expanding State Authority and Its Challenges
20. ELEVEN Diversity and the Border Patrol 203
21. TWELVE Refusing Borders 219
22. THIRTEEN Border Surge 237
23. FOURTEEN Bordering Reality 252
24. Afterword. Within and Without Borders 269
25. Acknowledgments 275
26. Contributors 277
27. Index 283