Border Dilemmas

Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912

By: Anthony P. Mora

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The U.S.-Mexican War officially ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which called for Mexico to surrender more than one-third of its land. The treaty offered Mexicans living in the conquered territory a choice between staying there or returning to Mexico by moving south of the newly drawn borderline. In this fascinating history, Anthony Mora analyzes contrasting responses to the treaty's provisions. The town of Las Cruces was built north of the border by Mexicans who decided to take their chances in the United States. La Mesilla was established just south of the border by men and women who did not want to live in a country that had waged war against the Mexican republic; nevertheless, it was incorporated into the United States in 1854, when the border was redrawn once again. Mora traces the trajectory of each town from its founding until New Mexico became a U.S. state in 1912. La Mesilla thrived initially, but then fell into decay and was surpassed by Las Cruces as a pro-U.S. regional discourse developed. Border Dilemmas explains how two towns, less than five miles apart, were deeply divided by conflicting ideas about the relations between race and nation, and how these ideas continue to inform discussion about what it means to "be Mexican" in the United States.

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"Border Dilemmas occupies a singular place in the literature on the West. It chronicles cultural relations and the generation of difference along the U.S.-Mexican border at the very moment when both American and Mexican national identities were being forged. Until now, no one has documented the nitty-gritty of this process and the ways that ethnic Mexicans on both sides of the border grappled with the production of local identities anchored in competitive national imaginaries." Ramon A. Gutierrez, co-editor of Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Local Borders: Mexicans' Uncertain Role in the United States	p. 1
Preoccupied America: Competing Ideas about Race and Nation in the United States and Mexico, 1821-1851	p. 23
"Yankilandia" and "Prairie-Dog Villages": Making Sense of Race and Nation at the Local Level, 1850-1875	p. 66
"Enemigos da la Iglesia Católica y por consiguiente de los ciudadanos Mexicanos": Race, Nation, and the Meaning of Sacred Place	p. 103
"Las mujeres Americanas están en todo": Gender, Race, and Regeneration, 1848-1912	p. 135
"It Must Never Be Forgotten This Is New and Not Old Mexico": Local Space in Euro-American Knowledge and Practice, 1880-1912	p. 172
"New Mexico for New Mexicans!": Race and the Redefinition of Regional Identity for Mexicans, 1880-1912	p. 223
Epilogue "Neath the Star Spangled Banner": Multiculturalism and the Taxonomic State	p. 274
Notes	p. 291
Bibliography	p. 345
Index	p. 367
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Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912

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