The U.S.-Mexican borderlands form the region where the United States and Latin America have interacted with the greatest intensity. InU.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Oscar Martinez has brought together both scholarly essays and primary documents that address the protracted conflict rooted in the vast difference in power between Mexico and its northern neighbor. Each of the seven parts of this new reader explores a key issue in borderlands studies and contains several essays followed by documents such as treaties, government reports, newspaper articles, and interviews.

The U.S.-Mexican borderlands form the region where the United States and Latin America have interacted with the greatest intensity. InU.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Oscar Martinez has brought together both scholarly essays and primary documents that address the protracted conflict rooted in the vast difference in power between Mexico and its northern neighbor. Each of the seven parts of this new reader explores a key issue in borderlands studies and contains several essays followed by documents such as treaties, government reports, newspaper articles, and interviews.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 I The Making of the Boundary
Part 3 Essays
Chapter 4 The Treaty of Guadalupe
Chapter 5 The Mesilla Treat, or Gadsden Purchase
Part 6 Documents
Chapter 7 Texas Declaration of Independence
Chapter 8 Treaty of Velasco
Chapter 9 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Chapter 10 Gadsden Treaty
Part 11 II Border Strife
Part 12 Essays
Chapter 13 Filibustering and Racism in the Borderlands
Chapter 14 The Apaches in Mexican-American Relations, 1848–1861
Part 15 Documents
Chapter 16 Report to the President
Chapter 17 Texas Frontier Troubles
Chapter 18 Proclamation
Chapter 19 El Paso Troubles in Texas
Part 20 III The Rise in Transborder Interaction
Part 21 Essay
Chapter 22 Sonora: The Making of a Border Society, 1880–1910
Part 23 Documents
Chapter 24 Why the Border Needs the Free Zone
Chapter 25 Why the Free Zone Should Not Exist
Chapter 26 A Mexican Schoolboy's Experiences in Eagle Pass, Texas
Part 27 IV The Mexican Revolution
Part 28 Essays
Chapter 29 Revolutionary El paso, 1910–11
Chapter 30 The Arizona-Sonora Border and the Mexican Revolution
Part 31 Documents
Chapter 32 Conspiring against Porfirio Diaz
Chapter 33 Plan de San Diego
Chapter 34 A Chicano Lawyer Blasts the Texas Rangers
Part 35 V Boom and Bust
Part 36 Essays
Chapter 37 Prohibition and Depression in Ciudad Juarez-El Paso
Chapter 38La Crisis
Part 39 Document
Chapter 40 Mexican MIgratory Workers in South Texas: Crystal City, 1938
Part 41 VI Interdependence: Blessings and Curses
Part 42 Essays
Chapter 43 Border Commuter Workers and Transfrontier Metropolitan Structure along the U.S.-Mexican Border
Chapter 44 The U.S.-Mexican Border and NAFTA: Problem or Paradigm?
Part 45 Documents
Chapter 46La Frontera: Land of Opportunity or Place of Broken Dreams?
Chapter 47 Mexican Maids: El Paso's Worst-kept Secret
Chapter 48 Border Ignored: Congressmen Fight Nationwide Indifference
Part 49 VII A World Apart
Part 50 Essays
Chapter 51 The Borderblasters
Chapter 52 Tourist Landscapes
Part 53 Documents
Chapter 54 BorderAmbiente
Chapter 55 So Close, Yet So Far: San Diego, Tijuana Bridging Gap
Chapter 56"La Frontera"
Chapter 57 Suggested Readings
Chapter 58 Suggested Films