header by Emerson Taymor, 2005


1. Pre-Columbian Mexico

2. The Conquest

3. Colonial Mexico

4. The Nineteenth Century

5. The Revolution

6. Mexico Since 1920

7. Theories of Mexicanidad

8. Borderlands and comparative history

 

 

 


Chapter 8: Borderlands and Comparative History

Section A: Hamalainen and Johnson, Major Problems in the History of North American Borderlands

Table of contents
1. What is Borderlands History?
2. Early Borderlands: The Southwest
3. Middle Grounds, Borderlands, and Frontiers
4. Borderlands, Cultural Exchanges, and New Native Societies
5. Borderlands in Change: The View from Above
6. Borderlands in Change: The View from Below
7. The Mexican North
8. Anglo-American Takeover of the Southwest Borderlands
9. Negotiating National Borders
10. Pacific Ties
11. The Mexican Revolution
12. Vice
13. Migration, Race, and Border Enforcement
14. Economic Integration and Mass Migration, 1994-Present

Section B: Ronald Takaki, A Distant Mirror: A History of Multicultural America

Table of contents
1. A Different Mirror: The Making of Multicultural America
2. The "Tempest" in the Wilderness: A Tale of Two Frontiers
3. The Hidden Origins of Slavery
4. Toward the "Stony Moountains": From Removal to Reservation
5. "No More Peck O' Corn": Slavery and its Discontents
6. Fleeing "The Tyrant's Heel": "Exiles" from Ireland
7. "Foreigners in Their Native Land": The War Against Mexico
8. Searching For Gold Mountain: Strangers from a Different Shore
9. The "Indian Question": From Reservation to Reorganization
10. Pacific Crossings: From Japan to the Land of "Money Trees"
11. The Exodus from Russia: Pushed by Pogroms
12. El Norte: Up from Mexico
13. To "The Land of Hope": Blacks in the Urban North
14. World War II: American Dilemmas
15. Out of the War: Clamors for Change
16. Again, the "Tempest-Tost"
17. "We Will All Be Minorities"

Section C: Jacqueline Battalora, Birth of a White Nation

Introduction: On Autobiography and the Study of Race
1. White People: The Creation
2. Race 101: How "Whites" Became a Success
3. The Americanization of Whites
4. Contingent Whites and Inbetween People: Mexicans and Irish in the U.S.
5. Seeing White and Naming Injustice
Epilogue: Why Would Whites Work to Dismantle Whiteness?