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Alsina, Valentín, 31 Alurista (Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia), 8–9, 10, 203, 210n7 Alvarado, Augustin, 218n9 Alvarado, Juan, 81–82, 220n16 Alviso, Nicolás, 79 Ambas Americas (journal), 35 Ambassadors of Culture (Gruesz), 210n9 American Colonization Society (ACS), 43, 45 americanismo literario, 29–30 American studies, hemispheric framework in, 10–11 Amoore, Louis, 171 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 6, 209n1 Appadurai, Arjun, 230n13 Arce, Julio, 110–11 Ardao, Arturo, 12 Argentina: independence movement, 27–28; Poinsett in, 28; Sarmiento on differences between U.S. and, 31; Sarmiento’s Facundo on, 30, 55; Sarmiento’s presidency, 34, 35 Arpaio, Joe, 202 assimilation: González’s Caballero and, 18, 126, 141; LULAC supports, 126, 134; as tendency in Chicana/o literature, 6; U.S. Spanish-language press and, 109; Vasconcelos on, 128 Ateneo de la Juventud, 125, 127–28 Acevedo, Mario: early novels of, 190; as Operation Desert Storm veteran, 191; La Pocha Nostra compared with, 208. See also The Nymphos of Rocky Flats; The Undead Kama Sutra Acosta, Oscar, 8 Adams, Rachel, 94, 176 Adams-Onis Treaty (1819), 48 The Adventures of Ali and Ali and the Axes of Evil (Chai, Verdecchia, and Youssef): Ali Ababwa to Osama bin Laden, 13; dream about Agraba, 21; on impact of War on Terror and liberal hypocrisy on Western ethnic identities, 14–15; La Pocha Nostra compared with, 207 African Americans: New Negro movement, 123–24, 225n6. See also race; slavery Alexander, Jacqui, 143, 144 “Algo Sobre California” (Pérez Rosales), 49–56; modern racial thinking in, 25–26; Vallejo’s Recuerdos Historicos y Personales Tocante a la Alta California compared with, 61–62; as vision of U.S. for Mexican and Latin American consumption, 15, 25; as window into formation of U.S. as neo-colonial force, 57–58 allochronism, 136 Almaguer, Tómas, 220n18 Index 246 / index “Bolivarismo y monroísmo” (Vasconcelos), 11 Bolton, Herbert, 11 Border Industrialization Program, 229n8 Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldúa), 6 Border Matters (Saldívar), 8 Border Protection, Anti-terrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act (2005), 230n12 borders: Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819 on U.S.-Mexico, 48; in Castillo’s Sapogonia, 155–56; in Gaspar de Alba’s Desert Blood, 175–82; as global racial and economic dynamic, 183; as liberatory third spaces, 196, 198; in Limón’s The Door to Bitterness, 183–89; as more permeable after 9/11, 14, 171–72, 174–75, 201; U.S. dependence on border economies, 175 Bouchard, Hippolyte, 64, 79, 218n7 Bourke, John Gregory, 151, 226n2 Brady, Mary Pat, 5, 228n2 Breve Historia de México (Vasconcelos), 130 Brickhouse, Anna, 210n9 Bryant, William Cullen, 38 Buelna, Don Joaquin, 78, 79 Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de, 47, 214n70 Bush, George W., 20, 165, 194, 201 Bustamante, Anastasio, 81 Caballero (González and Raleigh), 120–45; and assimilationism, 18, 126, 141; Bony’s skeleton scene, 121–22; class in, 127, 133; as collaboration, 126; Cotera’s epilogue to, 121; as counternarrative, 126, 137, 138; ethnography’s colonizing gaze challenged by, 124; as failed resistance narrative, 141; first encounter between Gonzaga and Devlin, 122–23; formal strategies of, 134, 140; on historical narrative, 127, 136–37; as historical novel, 136; linguistic access and social power linked in, 123; LULAC’s philosophy and, 126–27, 133–34, 140, 142, 144; Mena and Venegas’s works compared with, 119; publication of, 120; race in, 18, 126, 127, 131, 136; reading in context of modernismo, 124; on relationship of Gonzaga and Devlin, Las Aventuras de Don Chipote (Venegas), 108–19; author as foil to narrator in, 112–14, 118; autobiographical gestures in, 109; class in, 111, 114–16; eschews systematic critique of U.S. exploitation of Mexican labor, 115–16; flapper in, 111, 116, 117, 118; gringos called demons in, 113; méxico de afuera ideology undermined by, 117; as at odds with crónica tradition, 114; plot mediated through three focalizers, 112; race in, 115; sentiment linked to action in, 118; simultaneously promotes and critiques classist, misogynistic nationalism, 111; space and race converge in, 96; titular character, 111; twofold critique in, 114; women in, 111, 116–18 Aztlán, 2, 6, 9, 10, 99, 209n1 Bal, Mieke, 160 Balibar, Étienne, 6 Bancroft, Hubert Howe: Anglo-American capitalist nationalism of, 62–63; business methods of, 71–72; criticism of methods of, 63; employees criticize, 71–72, 75, 221n22; on “greasers,” 215n79; on Hijar-Padrés colony, 82–83; Historical Works, 68, 70; historiography of, 68–75; history of California of, 62–63, 66...

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