... 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...

... apprehended, arrested, detained, or deported has forced migrants to remain in the shadows; and it argues that as border fences expanded in length and height, they transformed the United States into a massive, carceral state. KEYWORDS U.S.-Mexico Border, borderlands, fences, environment, undocumented...

... borderlands Mexico Texas California Oregon ANDREW C. ISENBERG AND THOMAS RICHARDS , JR . Alternative Wests Rethinking Manifest Destiny ABSTRACT The mid-nineteenth century territorial growth of the United States was complex and contradictory. Not only did Mexico, Britain, and Native Americans contest...

... 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...