Notes on Labeling Places, Peoples, and Diseases ix
Introduction 1
1. From the U.S.-Mexican War to the Mexican-Texas Epidemic: Fevers, Race,
and the Making of a Medical Border 18
2. The Promise of Progress: Quarantines and the Medical Fusion of Race and
Nation, 1890-1895 59
3. The Appearance of Progress: Black Labor, Smallpox, and the Body Politics
of Transnational American Citizenship, 1895 78
4. The Power of Progress: Laredo and the Limits of Federal Quarantines,
1898-1903 123
5. Domestic Tensions at an American Crossroads: Bordering on Gender, Labor,
and Typhus Control, 1910-1920 165
6. Bodies of Evidence: Vaccination and the Body Politics of Transnational
Mexican Citizenship, 1910-1920 198
7. Between Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico Border: Race,
Citizenship, and National Identities, 1920-1942 236
Epilogue. Moving between the Border Quarantine and the Texas-Mexico
Borderlands 274
Acknowledgments 285
Notes 289
Bibliography 363
Index 403
