| Contents |
Introduction / Holly M. Karibo and George T. Díaz -- Part I. Emerging borders : policing boundaries in the nineteenth century. Defining the acceptable bounds of deception : policing the prize game in the northeastern borderlands, 1812-1815 / Edward Martin -- Dominance in an imagined border : Santos Benavides's and Santiago Vidaurri's policing of the Rio Grande / Luis Alberto García -- A border without guards : First Nations and the enforcement of national space / Benjamin Hoy -- Part II: Solidifying States, Testing Boundaries. To protect and police : Mexican consuls in the American borderlands at the turn of the twentieth century / María de Jesús Duarte -- Enforcing US immigration laws at the US-Canada border, 1891-1940 : the view from Detroit / Thomas A. Klug -- The roots of the border patrol : line riders and the bureaucratization of US-Mexican border policing, 1894-1924 / James Dupree -- Home guard : state-sponsored vigilantism and violence in the Texas-Mexico borderlands / Miguel A. Levario -- Part III: Building and resisting a Prohibition apparatus. Policing peyote country in the early twentieth century / Lisa D. Barnett -- Skirting the law : female liquor smugglers and sellers and policing through Prohibition along the Rio Grande / Carolina Monsivais -- Building a villain/hero binary : public rhetoric, smuggling, and enforcement in the postwar borderlands / Holly M. Karibo -- Part IV: Expanding state authority and its challenges. Diversity and the border patrol : race and gender in immigration enforcement along the US-Mexico Border / Jensen Branscombe -- Refusing borders : Haudenosaunee resistance, tobacco, and settler-colonial borderlands / Devin Clancy and Tyler Chartrand -- Border surge : drug trafficking and escalating police power on the Rio Grande / Santiago Ivan Guerra -- Bordering reality : dramatizing policing the North American borderlands in reality television / Anita Huizar-Hernández. |
| Abstract |
"This collection of original essays brings together a dozen pieces on the history of policing practices along both the southern and northern US borders. The two volume editors themselves have done work that represents the cutting edge of scholarship on the respective borders: Diaz in Border Contraband, and Karibo in Sin City North, her study of the Detroit-Windsor border region. The thematic reach of the book matches the geographic and chronological reach; as the editors put it, the project "explores how particular legal codes and regulatory practices have attempted to define and delineate the parameters of the state; how citizenship is defined in both law and in practice, and how state regulatory apparatuses monitor and police flows of goods and people across international divides." The project begins in the nineteenth century, with an examination of the policing of waterways during the War of 1812. Each subsequent chapter traces how contested jurisdictions and competing interests shaped the practice of border policing through the early 21st century. The collection considers critical historical moments and developments-including the Porfiriato and Mexican Revolution; the struggles over Indian sovereignty; the creation of immigration laws; Prohibition; the rise of transnational drug trafficking; and perception of borders in popular culture. In doing so, the volume examines the powerful ways that federal authorities impose political agendas on borderlands, and how local border residents and regions interact with--and at times push back against--such agendas. By blending political, legal, social, and cultural history, this collection provides new insight into the distinct realities that shaped the borders dividing the US, Canada, and Mexico"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019024365 |
| ISBN | 9781477320679 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook other) |
