Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States

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Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations. African Americans, 9, 26, 162, 248, 265–269; civil rights movement of, 3, 30; and Jim Crow laws, 14, 30, 265, 269. See also slavery agriculture, 10, 14, 16, 20–21, 32, 64, 73, 88, 89, 172, 177, 208, 223. See also irrigation Apaches, 8, 14, 37, 56, 64, 70, 88, 99, 172, 175, 177, 179, 181, 184, 201n42, 257, 274 Arizona, 1, 13–15, 19, 99, 171–197, 177, 210, 217. See also Bisbee; Tombstone Bajío, 19, 37, 42, 46, 48, 50, 53, 54, 57, 58, 62, 64, 65, 72, 77, 98, 100. See also Guanajuato; Querétaro Bajío revolution, 8, 59–61, 68 barrios, 27, 71, 216, 239, 252 Bisbee (Arizona), 14–15, 16, 70, 171– 173, 175, 176, 177, 184–192, 193, 194, 195, 204n86, 210, 213, 220–221 bison, 91–94, 99 borderlands, 13, 15, 29, 38, 70, 71, 141, 167, 173, 174, 175, 177, 182, 213, 219, 280. See also Arizona; New Mexico; Texas border security, U.S.-Mexican, 1, 172, 182–184, 249, 269 Bourbon reforms, 54, 57, 58, 59, 62 bracero program, 17, 18, 23, 74, 76 California, 17, 67, 69, 71, 100, 107n53, 174, 216, 220, 224, 259, 260, 262; gold rush in, 8, 10, 19, 69, 70, 96, 98, 174, 185; livestock in, 8, 84, 95–97; Spanish expansion into, 6, 42, 53, 56–57, 66 (see also West, U.S.: expansion into); U.S. acquisition of, 4, 10, 36, 68, 70, 97, 138 campesinos, 213, 229, 230, 232n12. See also ethnic amalgamations; mestizaje ; mestizos; racial categories capitalism, 4–7, 8–9, 11–12, 13, 16, 17, 20, 28, 31, 36, 38–39, 40, 42, 52–54, 56, 58, 63–64, 70–75, 126, 138, 167, 173, 208, 220, 245, 263, 270. See also economy; entrepreneurs; globalization ; Hispanic capitalism; silver Cárdenas, Lázaro, 18, 72–73 Caribbean, 6, 29, 39, 44, 45, 262, 264– 265, 268–269 castas, 173, 212, 272–273, 280. See also ethnic amalgamations; mestizaje; racial categories cattle. See livestock Chicano/a movement, 196, 214, 230, 238–239, 275 Chichimecas, 42, 47–48, 52 China: demand for silver by, 36, 39, 40, 46, 52, 68. See also economy: global; globalization 316 Index Chinese, 213, 224, 277; discrimination against, 14, 175, 181, 184–186, 189 Civil War, U.S., 3, 9, 10, 11, 12–13, 19, 45, 68, 70, 77, 110, 111, 112, 130, 133, 134, 138, 141–167 Colorado, 8, 17, 19, 68, 70, 185, 210 Comanches, 8, 37, 56, 64, 65, 67, 84, 85, 86, 88, 92, 94, 99, 100, 101, 102, 119, 257, 274 Confederacy, 9, 12–13, 130, 141–167. See also Civil War, U.S. copper, 14, 17, 68, 70, 171, 172, 174, 176, 184–185, 195, 215, 216, 223. See also Bisbee; mining Cortina, Juan, 143–144, 150 cotton, 9–10, 12, 65, 66, 67, 69, 112, 123, 216; Mexican, 151–156, 159–160. See also Texas Cotton Road cowboys, 9, 14, 37, 70, 71, 87, 95, 99–100, 181–184. See also vaqueros Díaz, Porfirio, 68, 72, 182, 183, 220, 224 Diné. See Navajos diseases, 2, 7, 9, 39, 40, 42, 44–45, 48, 50, 55, 57, 83, 86, 90, 270 drug trade, 1–2 dual-wage system, 171, 186, 187, 193– 196, 223, 275–276 ecology, 7, 8, 83–87, 89, 93–97, 101, 104nn21–22, 149 economy, 66, 67, 68; fragmentation of, 62–65; global, 1–2, 6, 15, 16, 17, 23, 26–27, 28, 59, 66, 141, 145, 281. See also capitalism; globalization; silver entrepreneurs: Anglo, 13, 16, 38, 39, 68, 69, 71–72, 101; Mexican, 20, 37, 42, 47, 49, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 63, 64, 65, 66, 166 estates, 22, 37, 41, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54–55, 60, 62–63, 67, 73, 74, 83, 95–96, 97, 98, 107n53, 109n70. See also haciendas; plantations; rancheros/ranchos ethnic amalgamations, 6, 11, 13–17, 37–38, 43, 46, 49–51, 65, 69–71, 77, 117, 120, 177, 257, 262, 269–276, 280; vs. racial polarities, 7, 14, 15, 16, 28–33, 38, 70, 75, 77, 265–267, 269, 275–276, 279. See also campesinos; castas; mestizaje; mestizos; mulattoes ; racial categories exploitation, symbiotic: in Mesoamerican New Spain, 54; transnational , 23, 54, 73–76. See also New Spain: Mesoamerica in Florida, 4, 129, 175, 259, 260, 269 frontiers, 7, 37, 38, 42, 46, 56, 57, 64, 66, 70, 79n20, 83–84, 86–87, 94–95, 103n5...