Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Racial Foundations 14
7. 2. Racial Formation: Spain’s Racial Order 49
8. 3. The Move North: The Gran Chichimeca and New Mexico 67
9. 4. The Spanish Settlement of Texas and Arizona 97
10. 5. The Settlement of California and the Twilight of the Spanish Period 127
11. 6. Liberal Racial Legislation during the Mexican Period, 1821–1848 161
12. 7. Land, Race, and War, 1821–1848 187
13. 8. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Racialization of the Mexican Population 215
14. 9. Racial Segregation and Liberal Policies Then and Now 277
15. Epilogue: Auto/ethnographic Observations of Race and History 297
16. Notes 311
17. Bibliography 331
18. Index 367