... considered of poor mind and body. Where previous studies focus on the urban North, this borderlands case study places the birth control movement’s attention to overpopulation within the context of immigration restrictions at the U.S.-Mexico border. Goetting’s birth control campaigns, supported...

...Miroslava Chávez-García; Verónica Castillo-Muñoz This special issue of Pacific Historical Review , “Gender and Intimacy across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,” is guest edited by Miroslava Chávez-García and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz. The articles in the collection reflect the primacy of gender...

... into a massive, carceral state. © 2019 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association 2019 U.S.-Mexico Border borderlands fences environment undocumented immigration Border Patrol carceral state MARY E . MENDOZA Caging Out, Caging In: Building a Carceral State at the U.S-Mexico...

.... expansion. The authors argue for returning a sense of context and contingency to the understanding of mid-nineteenth-century U.S. expansion. KEYWORDS Manifest Destiny, John L. O Sullivan, James K. Polk, John Quincy Adams, borderlands, Mexico, Texas, California, Oregon For students of nineteenth-century...

... Tuberculosis health seekers borderlands racialization gender El Paso Mexican American White Plague, Mexican Menace: Migration, Race, Class, and Gendered Contagion in El Paso, Texas, 1880 1930 HEATHER M. SINCLAIR The author received her Ph.D. in history in 2016 from The University of Texas at El Paso...

... perspective on the impact of Issei practice on the geopolitics of Yellow Peril, which spread from California to the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and beyond. This article examines the role of Issei settler colonialism, as well as its unintended consequences, in the formation of discourse on the transborder Yellow...

...Natale A. Zappia In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans of the Far West forged dynamic economies based on livestock, furs, and agriculture. Simultaneously, though, Natives in the borderlands between New Mexico and California expanded their economic...