Postcolonial readings of the early colonial history of an industrialized border city : legacies of conquest -- The invention of borderlands geography : what do Aztlán and Tenochtitlán have to do with Ciudad Juárez/paso del norte? -- The problem of color in Mexico and on the U.S.-Mexico border...

Material life in west and West Central Africa, 1650-1800 : an introduction -- Seeds of change : African agricultural workers in the Anglo-American colonies -- Cultivating knowledge : African tobacco and cotton workers in the Americas -- In an ocean of blue : West African indigo workers in the...