TY - BOOK AU - Mitchell,Pablo TI - Coyote nation: sexuality, race, and conquest in modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 T2 - Worlds of desire SN - 9780226532523 (electronic bk.) AV - F805.A1 M58 2005eb U1 - 978.9/04 22 PY - 2005/// CY - Chicago PB - University Of Chicago Press KW - Racism KW - New Mexico KW - History KW - Imperialism KW - Social aspects KW - Human body KW - Mind and body KW - Sex KW - Sex customs KW - HISTORY KW - State & Local KW - bisacsh KW - Race relations KW - Social conditions KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-227) and index; Compromising positions -- Carnal knowledge -- Transits of venus -- Strange bedfellows -- "Promiscuous expectoration" -- "Just gauzy enough." N2 - 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? UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=312144 ER -