Over the Edge |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
INTRODUCTION |
![]() | PART 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 |
![]() | PART 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 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | PART 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 |
![]() | 19— Dead West: Ecocide in Marlboro Country |
![]() | 20— La Frontera Del Norte |
![]() | Notes |
CONTRIBUTORS |
![]() | INDEX |