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Racial borders : Black soldiers along the Rio Grande /
When the Civil War ended, hundreds of African Americans enlisted in the U.S. Army to gain social mobility and regular paychecks. Stationed in the West prior to 1898, these black soldiers protected white communities, forced Native Americans onto government reservations, patrolled the Mexican border,...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2002.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | South Texas regional studies ;
no. 1. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Beyond Binary Racial Theory
- Ch. 1. Multiracial Interaction on the Border Prior to 1870
- Ch. 2. Black Conquerors: The Border and the U.S. Army in the 1870s
- Ch. 3. Crossing the River: The Social Life of the Black Regular
- Ch. 4. African Americans and Hispanics in the Age of Imperialism
- Ch. 5. Brownsville and Its Antecedents: Black Soldiers and Civil-Military Violence, 1899-1906
- Ch. 6. Race, Nationalism, and the American Punitive Expedition into Mexico
- Conclusion: The Legacies of Border Service
- App. 2. Poems about the Black Regulars.