Over the Edge
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INTRODUCTION

 collapse sectionPART ONE—  IMAGINING THE WEST
 •1—  Seeing and Being Seen:  Tourism in the American West
 •2—  Toga! Toga!
 •3—  Sacred and Profane:  Mae West's (re) Presentation of Western Religion
 •4—  "I Think Our Romance Is Spoiled," or, Crossing Genres:  California History in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don
 •5—  A Westerner in Search of "Negro-Ness":  Region and Race in the Writing of Arna Bontemps

 collapse sectionPART TWO—  CROSSING BOUNDARIES
 •6—  "Domestic" Life in the Diggings:  The Southern Mines in the California Gold Rush
 •7—  Making Men in the West:  The Coming of Age of Miles Cavanaugh and Martin Frank Dunham
 •8—  Changing Woman:  Maternalist Politics and "Racial Rehabilitation" in the U.S. West
 •9—  Mobility, Women, and the West
 collapse section10—  Plague in Los Angeles, 1924:  Ethnicity and Typicality
 •The Perils of Bad Publicity
 collapse section11—  The Tapia-Saiki Incident:  Interethnic Conflict and Filipino Responses to the Anti-Filipino Exclusion Movement
 •Filipino Migration and Japanese Settlement
 •Anti-Japanese/Anti-"Oriental" Sentiment and the Boycott Controversy
 •Conclusion
 •12—  Race, Gender, and the Privileges of Property:  On the Significance of Miscegenation Law in the U.S. West
 •13—  American Indian Blood Quantum Requirements:  Blood Is Thicker than Family

 collapse sectionPART THREE—  CREATING COMMUNITY
 •14—  Crucifixion, Slavery, and Death:  The Hermanos Penitentes of the Southwest
 •15—  "Pongo Mi Demanda":  Challenging Patriarchy in Mexican Los Angeles, 1830-1850
 •16—  Japanese American Women and the Creation of Urban Nisei Culture in the 1930s
 •17—  Competing Communities at Work:  Asian Americans, European Americans, and Native Alaskans in the Pacific Northwest, 1938-1947
 •18—  Perceiving, Experiencing, and Expressing the Sacred:  An Indigenous Southern Californian View
 collapse section19—  Dead West:  Ecocide in Marlboro Country
 collapse sectionPart One—  Portraits of Hell
 •Secret Holocausts
 •Misrach's Inferno
 •Resurveying the West
 •Jellyfish Babies
 collapse sectionPart Two—  Healing Global Wounds
 •Humbling "Mighty Uncle"
 •The Death Lab
 •The Great "Waste" Basin?
 collapse section20—  La Frontera Del Norte
 •A Collective Autobiography
 •El Norte
 •Frontera, Frontera Internacional
 •And They Keep Going . . . and Coming
 •Selected Tigres del Norte Recordings

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 •INTRODUCTION
 •1— Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West
 •2— Toga! Toga!
 •3— Sacred and Profane: Mae West's (re) Presentation of Western Religion
 •4— "I Think Our Romance Is Spoiled," or, Crossing Genres: California History in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don
 •5— A Westerner in Search of "Negro-Ness": Region and Race in the Writing of Arna Bontemps
 •6— "Domestic" Life in the Diggings: The Southern Mines in the California Gold Rush
 •7— Making Men in the West: The Coming of Age of Miles Cavanaugh and Martin Frank Dunham
 •8— Changing Woman: Maternalist Politics and "Racial Rehabilitation" in the U.S. West
 •9— Mobility, Women, and the West
 •10— Plague in Los Angeles, 1924: Ethnicity and Typicality
 •11— The Tapia-Saiki Incident: Interethnic Conflict and Filipino Responses to the Anti-Filipino Exclusion Movement
 •12— Race, Gender, and the Privileges of Property: On the Significance of Miscegenation Law in the U.S. West
 •13— American Indian Blood Quantum Requirements: Blood Is Thicker than Family
 •14— Crucifixion, Slavery, and Death: The Hermanos Penitentes of the Southwest
 •15— "Pongo Mi Demanda": Challenging Patriarchy in Mexican Los Angeles, 1830-1850
 •16— Japanese American Women and the Creation of Urban Nisei Culture in the 1930s
 •17— Competing Communities at Work: Asian Americans, European Americans, and Native Alaskans in the Pacific Northwest, 1938-1947
 •18— Perceiving, Experiencing, and Expressing the Sacred: An Indigenous Southern Californian View
 •19— Dead West: Ecocide in Marlboro Country
 •20— La Frontera Del Norte
  CONTRIBUTORS
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