Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. The Bajío
6. Chapter One. Vanishing Indianness: Pacifi cation and the Production of Race in the 1767 Bajío Riots 31
7. Chapter Two. “So That They May Be Free of All Those Things”: Theorizing Collective Action in the Bajío Riots 53
8. Coda One. From the Country to the City: Movement, Labor, and Race at the End of the Eighteenth Century 69
9. Part II. Haiti
10. Chapter Three. The Domino Affect: Haiti, New Spain, and the Racial Pedagogy of Distance 83
11. Chapter Four. Staging Fear and Freedom: Haiti’s Shifting Proximities at the Time of Mexican Independence 105
12. Coda Two. Haiti in Mexico’s Early Republican Context 125
13. Part III. Yucatán
14. Chapter Five. On Criminality, Race, and Labor: Indenture and the Caste War 139
15. Chapter Six. The Shapes of a Desert: The Racial Cartographies of the Caste War 164
16. Coda Three. “Barbarous Mexico”: Racialized Coercive Labor from Sonora to Yucatán 193
17. Epilogue 209
18. Notes 218
19. Bibliography 277
20. Index 302