Mitchell, Pablo.

Coyote nation sexuality, race, and conquest in modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 / [electronic resource] : Pablo Mitchell. - University Of Chicago Press, c2005. - 1 online resource (xv, 235 p.) : ill. - Worlds of desire . - Worlds of desire. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index.

Compromising positions -- Carnal knowledge -- Transits of venus -- Strange bedfellows -- "Promiscuous expectoration" -- "Just gauzy enough."

With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in the 1880s came the emergence of a modern and profoundly multicultural New Mexico. Native Americans, working-class Mexicans, elite Hispanos, and black and white newcomers all commingled and interacted in the territory in ways that had not been previously possible. But what did it mean to be white in this multiethnic milieu? And how did ideas of sexuality and racial supremacy shape ideas of citizenry and determine who would govern the region?

9780226532523 (electronic bk.) 0226532526 (electronic bk.)


Racism--History.--New Mexico
Imperialism--Social aspects--History.--New Mexico
Human body--Social aspects--History.--New Mexico
Mind and body--History.--New Mexico
Sex--Social aspects--History.--New Mexico
Sex customs--History.--New Mexico
HISTORY--State & Local.


New Mexico--Race relations.
New Mexico--Social conditions--19th century.
New Mexico--Social conditions--20th century.


Electronic books.

F805.A1 / M58 2005eb

978.9/04