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Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920. By Pablo Mitchell. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. xvi, 235 pp. Cloth, $50.00, ISBN 0-226-53242-9. Paper, $20.00, ISBN 0-226-53243-7.)
This study of colonialism and racialization in New Mexico deserves merit for several reasons. First, like other recent works related to Chicano history, it internationalizes the subject, comparing it (though briefly) to the histories of people such as those living in Puerto Rico who have had similar encounters under U.S. domination. Second, it revisits colonialism as a model for interpreting the experience of minority groups in New Mexico, though its application is much more nuanced than that used during the 1970s by an earlier generation of historians.
Among other things, American colonialism in...