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Racial borders :

1585449636

9781585449637

1585441589

9781585441587

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Racial borders :

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Black soldiers along the Rio Grande /

James N. Leiker.

1st ed.

College Station :

Texas A & M University Press,

©2002.

1 online resource (xiv, 241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :

illustrations, map.

South Texas regional studies ;

no. 1

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.

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, and broke up labor disputes in mining areas. African American men, themselves no strangers to persecution, aided the subjugation of Indian and Hispanic peoples throughout the West. It can hardly be surprising, then, that the relations among these groups became complex and often hostile; hardly surprising, but rarely examined. Despised by the white settlers they protected, many black soldiers were sent to posts along the Texas-Mexico border, perceived to be a safe place to put them. The interactions there among blacks, whites, and Hispanics during the period leading up to the Punitive Expedition and World War I offer the opportunity to study the complicated, even paradoxical nature of American race relations. This book establishes the army's fundamental role in transforming the Rio Grande from a frontier into a border and shows how that transformation itself brought a tightening of racial and national categories. But more importantly, it warns about the dangers of simplifying history into groupings of white and non-white, oppressors and oppressed.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

Racial borders.

1585441589

United States.-- African American troops-- History-- 19th century.

United States.

African American soldiers-- Mexican-American Border Region-- History-- 19th century.

African American soldiers-- Texas, South-- History-- 19th century.

Nationalism-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 19th century.

African American soldiers.

Armed Forces-- African American troops.

Ethnische Beziehungen

Frontier.

Grenze

History & Archaeology.

International relations.

Militairen.

Nationalism-- Social aspects.

Race relations.

Rassenverhoudingen.

Regions & Countries - Americas.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Ethnic Studies-- African American Studies.

Soldat

United States Local History.

Mexican-American Border Region, Race relations.

Mexico, Relations, United States.

Texas, South, Race relations.

United States, Relations, Mexico.

Mexico.

Mexiko

North America, Mexican-American Border Region.

Schwarze.

South Texas.

United States.

USA.

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