Despite a shared interest in using borders to explore the paradoxes
of state-making and national histories, historians of the
U.S.-Canada border region and those focused on the U.S.-Mexico
borderlands have generally worked in isolation from one another. A
timely and important addition to borderlands history, "Bridging
National Borders in North America" initiates a conversation between
scholars of the continent's northern and southern borderlands. The
historians in this collection examine borderlands events and
phenomena from the mid-nineteenth century through the
mid-twentieth. Some consider the U.S.-Canada border, others
concentrate on the U.S.-Mexico border, and still others take both
regions into account.
The contributors engage topics such as how mixed-race groups
living on the peripheries of national societies dealt with the
creation of borders in the nineteenth century, how medical
inspections and public-health knowledge came to be used to
differentiate among bodies, and how practices designed to channel
livestock and prevent cattle smuggling became the model for
regulating the movement of narcotics and undocumented people. They
explore the ways that U.S. immigration authorities mediated between
the desires for unimpeded boundary-crossings for day laborers,
tourists, casual visitors, and businessmen, and the restrictions
imposed by measures such as the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and
the 1924 Immigration Act. Turning to the realm of culture, they
analyze the history of tourist travel to Mexico from the United
States and depictions of the borderlands in early-twentieth-century
Hollywood movies. The concluding essay suggests that historians
have obscured non-national forms of territoriality and community
that preceded the creation of national borders and sometimes
persisted afterwards. This collection signals new directions for
continental dialogue about issues such as state-building, national
expansion, territoriality, and migration.
"Contributors" Dominique Bregent-Heald, Catherine Cocks, Andrea
Geiger, Miguel angel Gonzalez Quiroga, Andrew R. Graybill, Michel
Hogue, Benjamin H. Johnson, S. Deborah Kang, Carolyn Podruchny,
Bethel Saler, Jennifer Seltz, Rachel St. John, Lissa Wadewitz
Published in cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for
Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University.
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