Coyote Nation

Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920

By: Pablo Mitchell

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Hardcover | 15 January 2005 | Edition Number 1

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With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in the 1880s came the emergence of a modern and profoundly multicultural New Mexico. Native Americans, working-class Mexicans, elite Hispanos, and black and white newcomers all commingled and interacted in the territory in ways that had not been previously possible. But what did it mean to be white in this multiethnic milieu? And how did ideas of sexuality and racial supremacy shape ideas of citizenry and determine who would govern the region?
"Coyote Nation" considers these questions as it explores how New Mexicans evaluated and categorized racial identities through bodily practices. Where ethnic groups were numerous and--in the wake of miscegenation--often difficult to discern, the ways one dressed, bathed, spoke, gestured, or even stood were largely instrumental in conveying one's race. Even such practices as cutting one's hair, shopping, drinking alcohol, or embalming a deceased loved one could inextricably link a person to a very specific racial identity.
A fascinating history of an extraordinarily plural and polyglot region, "Coyote Nation" will be of value to historians of race and ethnicity in American culture.

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"Mitchell's book is the most original work on New Mexico history since the publication of Ramon A. Gutierrez'a award-winning When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away. . . . Mitchell's study of sexuality and race in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is likely to spark as much controversy as Gutierrez's study.--Richard Melzer, American Historical Review--Richard Melzer "American Historical Review"

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Preface
A Note onCoyotes
Acknowledgments
Introduction Bodies on Borders
Compromising Positions Racializing Bodies at Pueblo Indian Schools
Carnal Knowledge Racializing Hispano Bodies in the Courts
Transits of Venus Ceremonies and Contested Public Space
Strange Bedfellows Anglos and Hispanos in the Reproduction of Whiteness
"Promiscuous Expectoration" Medicine and the Naturalization of Whiteness
"Just Gauzy Enough" Consumer Culture and the Shared White Body of Anglos and Hispanos
Conclusion
Birth of aCoyoteNation
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Coyote Nation

Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920

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